Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests were not slow to do this. 'Now,' she wailed, 'I can't be a Hawaian dancer.' The next day Mr. Pinkle got a raise. His employer explained, my wife doesn't want to give any more parties. Her grass skirt is ruined.' Mr. Pinkle smiled. 'I wonder,' he said, 'if I could get the rest of that skirt...
...Bohemian, quasi-revolutionary circles with which Paris was awhirl in the days of the Commune. Heine made German enemies by his polemical bitterness, French friends by his personal charm, contributed briefly to a radical weekly edited by Karl Marx. In Paris, at 58, he died-crying "Paper! Pencil!" The wonder was that he had lived so long. A syphilitic infection, contracted in his university days and never diagnosed, had progressively lamed his left leg, crippled his left arm, and in his last years reduced him to almost helpless invalidism...
...pretty busy week for the H. A. A., and it's no wonder the boys dole out the ducats in grumpy fashion. For the last few years, when even the ushers felt lonely during the games, the A. A. boys had wolves at the door. That was bad enough. This year, with a sellout, Quincy Street has been so thick with speculators that the boys would probably be glad to go back to the wolves...
...cheeks unscarred. So, four years ago, testified Dr. Michael J. Horan and two colleagues, before a Chicago tribunal investigating the sanctity of Mother Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). The tribunal declared that the triple healing was "a wonder performed by supernatural power as sign of some special mission, and explicitly ascribed to God." In Manhattan last fortnight declared Dr. Horan, a Catholic: "The average man does not believe in miracles...
...Bronx, reporters hunted up Peter Smith, the beneficiary of the miracle, found him to be a clear-eyed youth, engaged in commuting daily to Manhattan's Cathedral College where he is a sophomore studying for the priesthood. Peter Smith's "wonder," cited as a reason why the Catholic Church should make a saint of Mother Cabrini. last week helped advance her one step on the long road to canonization. In the Vatican, Pope Pius XI and his Congregation of Rites approved the "heroic virtues" of the energetic, well-born nun, directed that she be called "Venerable...