Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance...
Unlike most young U. S. singers engaged lately by the Metropolitan, Tenor Crooks had made his name beforehand. At 11 he was a wonder boy soprano, commuting from his home in Trenton to sing at All Angels' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. At 12 he sang with Ernestine Schumann-Heink in a huge Ocean Grove (N. J.) festival, maintained perfect poise until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from...
...easy and natural to wonder why, if all these things were true, the directors of National City had permitted Charles Edwin Mitchell to continue as their chief executive for the past three years. Colyumist Heywood Broun sounded more than usual like a popular spokesman when he wrote: "In addition to reform we should have resignations...
After an hour Mrs. Byram began to wonder what was keeping him. She went out to look. Down by the barn the hogs were grunting excitedly. Packed together, snouts inward, they were lunging, biting, chewing at something big. She came closer and then, screaming, seized a club to beat the animals away from the thing they were eating. Its face was gone, but she knew what...
...West which folded up at the first signs of receding prosperity. Dishonesty was largely responsible for the failure of eighty percent of Chicago's banks, was entirely responsible for the unsavory investigation of New York banking houses. When the mighty have fallen so low; it is small wonder that the depositor hastens to the teller's window...