Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France and finally Norway. He is supposed to be a hatcher of anti-Stalin plots, but considering that agents of the Soviet secret service have made away in France with at least two of Stalin's lesser enemies, the health still enjoyed by Comrade Trotsky is matter for wonder. He is the most professional of revolutionists, with a finished technique of backhanded delicacy, and last week his activities were of unusual interest. Trotsky let it be known last month that he was going to have to leave Norway, and was afraid of hospitality proffered him by Mexico, lest...
Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delight of school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it failed to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have...
...curious to know what rewrite man is responsible and hope you can convey my orchids. I notice a resemblance to the famous Coolidge "Obit" and I wonder if it was the same writer or if TIME'S school of journalism makes Maupassants of all its writers...
...Slick was a frenzied wildcatter from Pennsylvania whose boomtime oil financing became the wonder of the Southwest. He held lawyers, geologists and physicians in equal scorn and died of overwork in 1930, bequeathing his name to two oil fields, a withered oil town and Slick-Urschel Oil Co. In Oklahoma last fortnight the name Slick disappeared from the oil business through a merger of Slick-Urschel with the new Transwestern Oil of Oklahoma...
...Preparing to retire to an office in San Francisco's Russ Building next year, there to "watch the wheels go round," Mr. Mount explained his acceptance: "I'm not going to have Giannini gunning for me for the rest of my life." Said his wife: "I wonder what he'll do to us next...