Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abstention of the Socialist Deputies from the Chamber proceedings merely aggravated a state of enmity between them and the Fascisti; and, with lack of constraint on both sides, it is nothing short of a wonder that more blood has not flowed sideways through perforated veins...
...wellbeing, in vague supplication for something pure and fresh, possibly a new woman. Later, when he approached her, an erect, full-bosomed child-virgin, she did not see a little cad of 30-odd with a pale, muggy face, but remembered a man whose gesture had expressed the wonder she awaited in life. She made a dream of him, managed their whole affair in calm unquestioning ecstasy-quite the best affair he had ever had, thought Monsieur Ripois, until she told him they would marry now, for the child. At that Monsieur Ripois stole off and tried to materialize...
...however, he was taking juvenile parts. A British critic hailed him as a "baby wonder." A year later he was playing with William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes. He got a part in a vaudeville skit, A Night in an English Music Hall, toured the U.S. In 1914 the Keystone Film Corporation enlisted his services for $40 a week...
...Wonder-City...
...from a friend; she did not open it, but packed it in her chest on her return to this country. A customs inspector at Norfolk opened the chest, the package, found seven quart bottles-gin, rye, Scotch, Bacardi, crème de menthe. Said her counsel: "The court may wonder why her woman's curiosity did not cause her to look into the package, but her testimony is unimpeached." In 15 minutes, the court acquitted...