Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wonder that prevents peace...
...armed leader rose and went to the platform. "You wonder what has been patched up," he exclaimed. "You might just as well remove that wonder from your minds. You showed confidence in me when you elected me President. If you haven't the same confidence now, I don't want the office." Thereupon he changed the subject and talked about corruption in the district...
...Companies, like the General Electric, Westinghouse, Edison, American Telephone and Telegraph, broadcasted programs of music and other diversions, which might be listened to in fine reproduction by anyone owning a radio set. Thousands and thousands bought sets, and the great radio fad was under way. It increased to wonderful proportions. Today newspapers run special radio supplements, and throughout the country countless numbers of people " tune in" every evening, and pick up what diverting sounds they can through the air. The programs broadcast were at first very fine, especially in the way of music. The radio transmits tone with a great...
...Mellon sailed for Europe recently he announced that Seymour Parker Gilbert, Jr., Under Secretary of the Treasury, who had tendered his resignation, consented to remain in office, and assume the duties of Acting Secretary of the Treasury until his superior returned from abroad. This invited attention to a " boy wonder "; for Mr. Gilbert is only 30. Eleven years ago he began to dangle his Rutgers Phi Beta Kappa key. Three years later he took his law degree at Harvard cum laude. Even in 1918 he was only a minor official in the Treasury Department at Washington...
Nobody's Darling. A Baby Peggy picture?in which, as usual, the six-year-old star gives us furiously to wonder as to whether the best thing in the world for the future of the movies would not be to eliminate practically all movie actors and actresses over the age of ten. A delightful, natural and interesting film, that could teach some of Baby Peggy's older associates a good deal more about acting than they would be ever willing to admit...