Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia: "I have not examined all the rolls of the Alabama Klan but I know Black is not now a member." Meanwhile the New York Times reported that Justice Black, vacationing in Paris, had dodged efforts of its correspondents to corner and question him. There was little wonder if Justice Black took refuge in the traditional prerogatives of the Nine Old Men of whom he now is one. Secure in a life job, he had little to worry about. If the past of the first liberal justice appointed by Franklin Roosevelt should prove more sensational than the past of conservative...
...Hepburn the sum of $500,000 was contributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political fortunes by John L. Lewis. Ontario farmers grin, figuring that "Mitch" is only having his fun when he makes such charges, but the Premier continues roaring at Washington from public platforms: "Is it any wonder that [Lewis] can corrupt governments with a slush fund of that size...
While the Senate was busy wondering: 1) whom the President would appoint to the Supreme Court vacancy created last June 2 by the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter; and 2) whether he would make his appointment before Congress adjourned, Idaho's gaunt old lion, Senator William E. Borah, last week gave it something new to wonder about. Said he on the Senate floor...
...hostess,' said Tilley, coldly. 'Provided by the livery stable. Another dubious wonder of the modern world. In the event of emergency, she will be the one to walk to the nearest farmhouse, give the alarm, and be photographed.* Well, au revoir!' The coachman whipped up his cob, and the little party rumbled off along Fifty-ninth Street, Tilley brandishing his brassie with great ferocity at a horsefly. As we turned, we discovered to our surprise that the sidewalk, where he had paused a moment, was a pool of tears...
...bright group of the Pleiades, near the celestial figure of amorous Orion, has been a source of wonder and speculation to shepherds and seers since the dawn of history. Telescopes reveal thousands of stars in the cluster, moving away from Earth at six miles per second (present distance: nearly two quadrillion miles). To Babylonians the naked eye stars were ''The Many Little Ones," to American Indians "The Seven Brothers." In some folklore they are called "The Seven Who Now Are Six.'' as though an ancient memory persisted that the dim star, which can be seen only...