Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gazing with wonder at the granite mountain in front of him, the boy did as he was told, and at the proper moment, gave a signal. Carrier-pigeons fluttered out of baskets to take the news to all the States. The flags on the mountain parted. Still veiled, but not obscured, by an April mist, the gigantic figure of a great soldier loomed, visible in detail to people on the plain 200 ft. below...
...fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...
...Producer Carl Laemmle forfeited the chance by the dexterity of his workmanship. He depicts Jews, Irishmen, Italians, Germans, Swedes, Russians mingling in a U. S. city in a plausible manner. The young people are restless, ill at ease, in the parental homes. Ma and Pa Levine (pants-presser) wonder why, until a neighbor asks them the question: "Isn't it possible that your daughter is justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents] can read and write the English language?" So Ma and Pa go to night school. One day, when Ma is reciting the Gettysburg...
...just wonder if you will publish these few lines in your coming issue, so that a few other fathers and sons will make youth TIME a connecting link between their passing youth and the coming manhood. DAVID E. SOLOW New York...
...Wonder children are manifold in the musical world. Critics rarely take them seriously-but Kreisler was a prodigy, so were Heifetz, Mischa Elman. Young Yehudi Menuhin has supplied the best violin copy of the season. Another child won serious attention last week. He was Miguel Candela, 12-year-old prize-winner of the Paris Conservatory, come to Manhattan for his U. S. debut. Critics found him better than the average prize-promising student, gave unstinted praise to the virtuosity of his twelve years, the maturity of his conceptions...