Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foran ably sings an ably written tune, "No More Happiness." D. S. McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet-dancing Harry Dunham of last year's show?much to the relief of those graduates who were beginning to wonder if Princeton's female impersonators were not getting too good. The somewhat garbled plot of Spanish Blades is extracted from Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Don Quixote...
...those who wonder why Pilot Hinkler suddenly popped out of his long obscurity to hop oceans, Editor Grey reveals a story: Few years ago Hinkler financed the building of a new small tandem-engined amphibian named the "Ibis," with funds made from his Australia flight. Unable to interest British capital he came to the U. S. in 1930. found capital even scarcer. Then a plan to make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs...
...best thing we have in New York. The glory of the skyscraper is that it has provided for the congestion so well. The larger the city, the broader is the opportunity for kindred spirits to find one another and to play and work together. The wonder of New York is that it is the first place in the world where a man can work within a ten-minute walk of a quarter of a million people. Think how this expands the field from which we can choose our friends, our co-workers and contacts, how easy it is to develop...
...brothers of Kansas City - Robert, Leroy and Kenneth - wanted $1,000,000 in damages because the lake floods the edge of their 5,400-acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from all over the world. Mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum promised to testify for the Snyders that he "would have given $1,000,000 for the estate" before the dammed waters started to rise, "would...
...Iraq Government kept one but after much sweating & swearing, an expensive ocean carry, a perilous rail trip, Dr. Chiera got his bull to Chicago. He kept it out on a football field under tarpaulins until the new building was ready. Now, until Chicago decays and disappears and future diggers wonder if Sargon's Bull is a monument to the prehistoric Chicago stockyards, it will stand as a most tangible piece of archaeological evidence, an irrefutable argument for digging into humanity's past...