Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre's galvanic founder-directrix, Actress Eva Le Gallienne. Monday and Saturday nights she was the dour daughter of a Russian steward. Tuesday she was a sleek and satined marquise. Saturday she was Peter Pan both morning and afternoon, zooming on concealed wires out over the heads of gasping, wonder-struck children...
...wonder Firpo Greene postponed the taking of the Yale Football picture for six weeks after the game in the event of the non-return of the old fence. Without some sort of support it would certainly be at least six weeks before the team could stand up for a picture after the results of this afternoon's contest...
...creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...
...partygoing in a window curtain; Colyumist Heywood Broun lying shirt-sleeved beside his bathtub of cocktails, to receive intelligentsia; Lady Oxford asking Gordon to Black Bottom after singing for royalty. He sang all over the U. S., heard deafening and perplexing applause. Now 36, he muses: "Ho! Ho! ... I wonder what I was born...
...selection of Professor Fay by the Bureau of International Research reflects an honor upon a man who has proved himself to be a brilliant and indefatigable scholar. Indeed there are many who will wonder what origins of the world war Professor Fay could have overlooked in his two widely known volumes on the subject. To the lay mind his work has the stamp of absolute finality...