Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Jos'eph E. Howard, 94, veteran showman, author of 28 musical comedies, more than 500 songs (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), an ebullient entertainer for eight decades who married his ninth wife at 87, had just finished a benefit show, was blowing a kiss to his accompanist when he collapsed on the stage of the Civic Opera House; in Chicago...
...mementos was found in a stone tower of La Grange, one of the family estates outside Paris. Using this untapped source material and other fresh documents collected by La Fayette's descendants, Veteran Biographer Andre Maurois (Protist, Disraeli, Dickens] has described the virtuous Adrienne in tones of solemn wonder. Adrienne's sole fault was that she was almost too good to be true-and certainly was much too good to be interesting for 482 pages. But Old Master Maurois, 76, wisely lets La Fayette dominate great stretches of the book, just as he dominated much of Adrienne...
...might have suspected, is "the fledgling scholar deserving a wider audience for his best work than simply the brilliant grader--in a word, the Harvard undergraduate." One would not have anticipated, however, the ugly name the Journal slaps on this new beast: "the intelligent specialist non-specialist." Small wonder that these beings have lapsed into scholarspeak--no doubt out of sheer ontological terror...
Little birdle, little birdle, why is your head so red? After all that I've been through it a wonder I ain't dead...
While Harvard was forced to embark on a nation-wide alumni fund drive to raise money from College graduates, Brown was able to get $3 million from all the people of Rhode Island, by selling itself as an "integral part of the community." One can only wonder at the effect of such a local appeal campaingn in the Greater Cambridge area...