Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes wonder just what constitutes public opinion, anyway. The other night we overheard someone in the theatre lobby remark: "This must be a fine play. Look at the crowds trying...
...world at heart. Shantung returned to China after twenty-three years, the cessation of preparations for war in the Pacic, the naval holiday, an agreement relative to the use of poison gas and submarines these are some of the things which the present Conference has accomplished. What wonder then, that there is such a prevalent feeling of "bien-etre"? As with the Englishmen of 1763, hope for the future is today on all hands apparent...
Considering this fact one is inclined to wonder what will be the reception to the blanks distributed today by the Secretary and Treasurer. The Class Fund is always a difficult thing to organize; if only 25 per cent of the class agree to contribute, the task of keeping the unity of the class alive, already sufficiently difficult, will be rendered well-nigh impossible...
...what can be done in this way. If the new French cabinet will insist on doing things slowly and correctly through the usual diplomatic channels, France will find itself in the position of a man who decides to drive leisurely down speeding Broadway in a smart brougham only to wonder at being the last of a long line before the box-office...
...trilling and warbling of the wind instrucments in the Cleopatra episode. It is interesting to note that the Rondo Infernale is a direct forerunner of the Katschei dance in Strawinsky's "Oiseau de Feu", and a good instance of the influence of master over pupil. Little wonder that "Mlada" is not well known. The scenic demands are enormous--from the Baltic to the Nile, as vast corps de ballet is needed to mime the spirits of the chief characters, and the score calls for a huge orchestra of some hundred men and such unusual instruments as lyres and flutes...