Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some of the humor gets grey hairs: The tenth time grandma upbraids grandpa for swearing is scarcely as funny as the first. The narrative, toward the end, begins to stagger and stutter. And Mr. Brink (Frank Conroy) stays up in the apple tree long enough to make the captious wonder if it isn't time for the leaves to turn. But that may be because the tree looks (as grandpa would put it) so goddamn natural...
...days when tradition made it obligatory for U. S. honeymooners to go to Niagara Falls, they did their most effective mooning at the local Wonder of the World from 1,248-ft. Falls View Bridge. Closest to the falls of the three bridges that span the Niagara River in that area, it was something of a wonder itself. It trembled in the wind, shook under heavy loads, but for 39 years managed to keep from crashing into the 200-ft. canyon below...
...asked churchfolk around Boston: What is the outstanding question that you face in your thinking and, living? Professor Ruopp's tabulation of nearly 5,000 replies was published last week in the Boston Transcript religious column of Dr. Albert Charles ("Dieff") Dieffenbach, who recommended it to preachers who wonder what they should preach...
...book of the benevolent, family-physician, don't-worry-there's-nothing-to-it type, explaining frigidity, homosexuality, adultery, venereal diseases and a variety of semi-clinical matters with a joviality that is sometimes excessive. "Here comes a young lady," says Dr. Hotep, "who is beginning to wonder when she will become 'promiscuous'-when she has had three lovers, or when she has had ten." Other perplexed souls who poured out their problems to Dr. Hotep included two well-brought-up college girls who wondered if it was safe for them to pick up strangers...
...wonder whether Mrs. Nieman's million dollars might not have been used better to stimulate the real "truths-papers" of America--such as the Sunday "News of the Week" section of The New York Times, such as The Christian Science Monitor, such as The New Republic and The Nation--written not scientifically or objectively, not disjointedly or dispassionately, but rather integrating events into a viewpoint of a whole life. --The Dartmouth...