Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder whether Mr. Warren, who was treasurer of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, expressed the policy of his company in the terms of his will. We wonder whether he refused to profit from policies written for families whose sons would forever be considered unworthy of his scholarships, and whether the company which he represented in such a major office would freely give employment to the sons of such families...
First impression was to wonder why anyone so flagrantly sexy as her Carmen should trouble to work for a living in a cigaret factory. She sang the Habanera belligerently, as if defying the world. She turned on bewildered Don Jose like a tigress, sidled up to the captain of the guards like an oldtime cinema vamp. The stage scarcely seemed to hold her. Ponselle's voice is naturally sumptuous, but she was too busy ranting to do justice by Bizet's music...
...quietly in his bed of the uremia from which he suffered for many a month. With his General's cap and all his medals beside him, they laid him out in the village church at Maracay. All night long barefoot peasants shuffled past, their black eyes wide with wonder. In his lifetime canny Dictator Gomez made much of the fact that he was born on July 24, a holiday celebrated throughout South America as the birthday of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. The day and hour of his death last week were reported to have coincided with those of Bolivar...
Miss Hayes continues to model her impersonation of Victoria with sure dramatic strokes when, after her marriage to the tall and handsome Albert, she sees him at his toilet for the first time. "Oh-h-h!" she cries, breathless at the wonder of her maidenly discovery, "you're shaving!" Not even the quiet resolution of punctilious Albert prevents her from embracing him before an open palace window, an act of domestic abandon evocative of certain tender moments in the cinema version of A Farewell to Arms...
Dear Nancy: I have a serious problem facing me and I wonder if you can help me settle it. I am to be married next week, and my fiancee's mother insists that we take her younger daughter with us on our honeymoon...