Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom all sympathy lies--especially the sympathy of the ladies. He and the other artists portray their roles with vitality and emotion, though never fall into the melodramatic. With the exception of the second episode which is highly improbable the production is made lifelike and real. One does not wonder that the devoutly religious lady protects the convict with a lie, and that the parson is prevented from doing so only by the escape himself who "plays cricket"--gives himself up. Any of the audience would have done likewise...
...however, you are like the reviewer and have no predetermined feeling for or against Miss Daniels, the matter becomes more difficult-if you take your movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital...
...chronic organizer, he had propounded an efficient, unified student government, and drafted a constitution. The small campus boiled with political fervor, causing President David Starr Jordan to remark: "I wonder if I'm not presiding over a young Tammany Hall." The two parties were an "aristocratic" fraternity element v. a "barbarian" element led by the constitution-writer's friends. Hoover was reluctant to run for an office himself, but they insisted he was their strongest candidate for the important post of treasurer. Finally he said, "Well, perhaps I can swing it." Swing...
Utterance. People who wonder what Candidate Hoover stands for in a political way can educe the following from his public utterances (usually made with a minimum of enthusiasm...
...last visit he ubiquitously exhibited bad manners but last week he seemed the authentic dreamer of such works of genius as Tales of Wonder, A Night at an Inn and The Laughter of the Gods...