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Word: wonders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whiz!" Small wonder that rugged old Senator Hearst was surprised when his gangling son came home and, out of all the riches he might have chosen, asked for the Examiner, a pitiable rag taken in for a bad debt. But greater was the Senator's surprise when "Willie," calling about him some of his blithe college friends, proceeded to run up the old rag's circulation-at wanton initial expense- by an amazing application of the Pulitzer method. (He had brought home bound copies of the World.) "The Monarch of the Dailies," he called his sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...heart of Jonathan's daughter Polly. Robert Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna, who in Hungary was called "Steffi, the Wonder Child." Pert Miss Duna, whose elfin face looks not unlike Sylvia Sidney's, played in Noel Coward's Words & Music in London earlier this season, is now making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...course and a course is a man, and so wedded are the two that separation of them defies the greatest feats of imagination. So it is with German B. Without Dr. Herrick the tremendous scope and perfect efficiency of the course is inconceivable; with him it remains an eighth wonder. Dr. Herrick is a born pedagog, inspiring, able to induce a desire for knowledge and to get results. He has a wealth of anecdotal and related information which makes the driest, application of Grimm's law or the third rule for the use of the subjunctive less grim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...famous leader added, "I wonder if Serge Koussevizky will be there tonight. He'll have to take several auditions before he can join our orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Saxophone-ish, Wailing Jazz Being Displaced By New American Music, Now That Beer Is Here, Says Ben Bernie | 4/20/1933 | See Source »

...certain ruddy charm as the Vagabond strolls to church. He nods to acquaintances, and looks with a wistful hope for the sight of a lone green bud. In the church, he becomes solemn, and regards his image on the glistering toe of his boot, with a feeling of wonder. Falling in with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul in a boat, but his more mundane friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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