Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sullenness among Vatican laborers, which recent visitors have noted with wonder, may disappear. His Holiness last week granted their demands for more wages, will give them five times what they earned before the War. But, from October on, they must work six hours daily, instead of their usual three...
...wonder whether the editor has taken the trouble to acquaint himself with the facts before insulting many of his most consistent readers...
...century ago the hamlet of Birkenhead boasted some 50 inhabitants, rustics who scratched their polls in wonder at the great steamers plying to Liverpool, just across the River Mersey. Last week scholars of the Birkenhead School, all conscious that their potent industrial city now numbers over 100,000 souls, welcomed a sleek gentleman who once conned his three R's at Birkenhead School under the name of Freddy Smith. "My advice to you . . ." said the sleek gentleman while his auditors squirmed appreciatively, "My advice to you is to meet success, when it comes to you, like a gentleman...
...white rice, write al-fatiha (the Opening), the first sura (chapter) of the Koran.* Too he would write the great speech of Abu Bekr, the first caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae, found it a perfect symbol of food for the starving soul, bought it for $500. Neither scribe nor buyer knew that in England three and a half centuries...
...Gleaves, Ambassador Herrick, and General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread of 35 ft. The Bretons gazed in wonder at the power and grace of Mrs. Whitney's work...