Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year's team, no all-around star like Berry, no speedster like Mercer and Minds, stars of recent years. If Heisman can build his attack around Strauss or Whitehill this year, and beat Dobie's Cornellians on Franklin Field late in November, he will be hailed as a wonder-worker by Penn alumni. Strauss will be remembered hereabouts as the man who ran wild against Dartmouth and virtually settled the outcome of the game in one of the set-tos at Fenway Park...
...Henry Jewett Players have done it again. When we saw "Major Barbara" two weeks ago, we wondered if they could keep up that standard of production for the remainder of the season. Then a week later we went to the jubilant performance of "She Stoops to Conquer" and we began to wonder even more. In past years the Jewett players have had their ups and downs; it hardly seemed possible that they could continue indefinitely to give such capital performances. Finally we saw "Lady Frederick" by W. Somerset Maughan, Monday night and we were convinced. Whatever the New York managers...
...back and romped through the entire Brown and Gold team, evading what looked like sure disaster. His ability to keep going after he has apparently been smothered is reminiscent of the great Casey, and marks him as a man well fitted to fill the shoes of last year's wonder. In addition to his fleetness, Churchill showed no mean ability as a kicker, and easily out-punted Gilbert of Valparaiso both in height and distance...
...wonder why a good American espouses the cause of English Tories, a group of people who either would not recognize him, or who if they did for the sake of gaining their purposes would do so in a sickeningly patronizing and scornful way? This part of the picture always makes me smile...
...only $3000. When we consider that the first secretaries now in the service have served at least eight years and some of them as long as 15 years, and when we remember that there is no certainty of worth-while promotion even to the best men, it is no wonder that the State Department is today having difficulty in recruiting vacancies with men of pre-eminent fitness for the important duties which the service involves Indeed, the wonder is not that the service today is not better but that it is as good...