Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the insecure jail, shouting: ''Lynch them! Burn them!" The three cowering men were rushed into automobiles and whisked to the court house where Judge George W. Sample was waiting. Said Judge Sample: "I feel like I am in the presence of fiends. I don't wonder that the crowd is howling for vengeance. . . . The law must take its course. The people of the State of Michigan have decreed that the penalty for this crime is life imprisonment. We all know that it doesn't make the penalty severe enough."* Then he sentenced each...
...also wonder why all this has happened. Is it because of the so-called 'inflammatory bomb' which I incorporated in my discourses of last year which the Columbia Broadcasting System wanted me to omit from the 'Prosperity Sermon.' ... I wonder if any outside pressure has been brought to bear upon the Columbia Broadcasting System by a few bigots whose minority organization figures to bulldoze the people of America and who now hope to tamper with free speech? . . . The fact still remains that they will not accept my money or my contract. . . ." Father Coughlin announced that...
Some of my French friends in Paris have asked me why. I wonder if you would be willing to let us know the origin of this name...
...easily distinguishable from each other-Richard Norris Williams II, the most brilliant half-volleyer in history, Wallace Johnson, a sporting-goods salesman who seemed always trying to compensate for his plebeian occupation by the languidly patrician gestures of his chop-strokes, Vincent Richards, who remained almost perpetually the boy wonder of U. S. tennis. When Johnston retired, Richards turned professional, Williams grew too veteran to be brilliant for more than a day at a time, there appeared on the scene a great second-growth of younger players. These-George Lott, John Van Ryn, Berkeley Bell, Gregory Mangin, Wilmer Allison, John...
...Warren may have been hissed by Russians when she went to buy in the stores, but my experience has made me wonder at the goodwill and tolerance shown by the Russians toward the many privileges we enjoy. We buy in our own store unlimited quantities of any available article, and such a privilege is so unusual that we have marvelled that none of the Russians -with whom we have come in contact have ever begrudged us a thing...