Word: wondere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder why some Harvard man does not write a football song that could be sung at the Harvard-Princeton football game...
From Sofia despatches chronicled the assassination of M. Madjariow, the mayor of the city, by one Tomoff. For a wonder the two men chanced to be of the same political party and as a result the Bulgarian press was unable to adhere to its usual policy of attaching an allegedly "deep political significance" to every notable crime...
Before this review is complete there must be some mention of the play in case anyone still intends going. A young debutante has just written a play. The play is called "As He Thinketh." Delightfully complicating, these plays within plays. All the cats wonder how she could have written it. But since she wrote it while recovering from a nervous breakdown, the audience is given to understand that that explains everything, for anything may happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless...
...Hammond has claimed for his invention that it makes possible greater sonority, more lasting tone, alteration in the quality of the tone after it has been struck (TIME, Aug. 31). No wonder the assembly stared as Pianist Donahue, supported by Conductor Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, sank his fingers into the keyboard. They heard Rachmaninov's dense symphonic thunders rendered to the last chord, and they shook their heads. Definitely, it was a disappointment. There had been moments-in the adagio, in the arpeggiated chords of the cadenza-when the sustaining power of the instrument was evident...
...sometimes find difficulty in expressing their opinions in public Doubly hard must it be for the mass of college men, who later turn into the mass of business men, to express themselves. During their college course, their ingenuity displayed itself chiefly in concealing a lack of knowledge. No small wonder they never learned how to present ideas of their...