Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder what you read," said Professor John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson professor of English, to a Freshman class recently. "I'm just wondering." Professor Lowes was some-what perturbed when he mentioned a familiar incident from "Pilgrim's Progress," and from a class of two hundred received not a single sign of recognition...
...Lowell Thomas' voice, to show the actual scenes of these achievements. There are great liners plowing across the ocean, droves of airplanes in faultless formation, spotless dams thrown across huge canyons, and smoke-stacks that dwindle away into the sky. But it in not these sights which arouse wonder; it is the fact that this Mussolini, whose powerful voice keeps coming back, a little hoarser to be sure each time, has accomplished these feats alone. To watch the way in which Mussolini rose to prominence, to see him at work, at weddings, and at countless reviews in as many different...
What British newspapers called the "unprecedented bluster" of Commissar Litvinov's speech made Britons wonder if after all the Soviet Government might not have some real evidence against the arrested engineers, particularly when two other engineers of the same firm arrested on the same charges at the same time, had been so promptly released. Proceeding cautiously, the Government planned to introduce in the House of Commons a bill empowering the Government to declare an embargo on April 17; but about the Moscow trial the Prime Minister would say nothing "because to do so would not be in interest...
...certainly to be found in Kansas but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life . . . [not] the glories of his home State, the beauties of the simple life of the farmers. I wonder whether this is not just a phase through which he will pass and will soon come to see something beautiful in life, and particularly life in Kansas." No Kansan bought Curry's "freaks" and downcast was Artist Curry who, though his apple-face looks cheerful, is actually a hypersensitive, self...
...change left Hollywood with two more things to wonder about: whether Thalberg would ever resume his old post; whether last week's move was an attempt to oust him or merely a step in the current trend to decentralize studio authority. First official act of Vice President Selznick was to announce an all-star cast, even more prodigious than the one which Thalberg last year chose for Grand Hotel, for MGM's forthcoming production of Dinner at Eight: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Madge Evans, John Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Jean Hersholt, Louise Closser...