Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the world, was there ever such a record of achievement and speed? Twenty-five percent recovery from a small depression may not be much but 25% recovery by a deliberate plan in a few months from the wreck of an entire economic system is a seventh wonder of the world. And for this relief much thanks from 95% of the American people but-from the leaders, guides and scouts of the old road to ruin -what? Strident clamoring-a few little men with loud voices, frantically waving many puny red flags of false and futile warning...
...preview of a film adapted from Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive, featuring Miss Gish. At one point the President remarked: "Eddie, that music is too heavily scored." Mr. Dowling agreed. After the showing an English lady gushed: "I loved it! All those English scenes. I only wonder whether the American public will appreciate its subtle appeal?" "Tut. tut," replied the smiling President. "I'm one of the American mob and I enjoyed it thoroughly...
...Chicago Medical Society was in a furor last week. In the September American Mercury, Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association had poked gently caustic fun at the elaborate routine of present-day obstetrical practice. He made bold to wonder whether modern mothers-in-child-birth are really better off than those of horse & buggy days. For this heresy the Society demanded that the A. M. A. discipline its spokesman. This the A. M. A. flatly refused...
That the astute gentlemen who represent American High Finance find themselves increasingly subject to dizziness, fainting spells, and insomnia is certainly no cause for wonder. Nor will Pepso, Postum, or Sanka afford them any relief, for down in Washington the realistically-minded Mr. Pecora continues to dissect, with gusto, their jowly leaders, and after every such operation their brains are freighted with dismal adumbrations...
...priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence of God before the State was wholly antithetical to Bolshevik ideals. Professing these principles it is no great wonder that the Revolution swirled angrily over Protestantism and sucked away its foundations, more by the power of what is loosely termed "propaganda" than by direct persecution. But whatever the means employed, the outcome was never in doubt. One or the other had to give way, and the Kremlin held...