Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disliked all over South America and with reason. And then we wonder that England, who sends her best, the charming courteous Prince of Wales, wins their good will, and that the Germans, who speak perfect Spanish and Portuguese are arriving in shoals...
...debts be paid. As an economist the President would be inclined to insist on payment or bankruptcy. But all the other considerations urge the contrary action. The danger to the rest of the world if the possible result mentioned above should take place is great enough to make anyone wonder if sound finance will always give the best results...
When the solid gold top of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon was shaken down by an earthquake (TIME, May 19, 1930), Thomas Cook & Sons may well have mourned. But last week pious Burmese crowned their wonder of the world again with gold. The completed job cost $300,000, was rushed through one year and three weeks after the quake. For good measure and added travelers' delight, diamonds were set into 2,500-year-old Shwe Dagon's new crown...
...plan ultimately works. Mr. Harris' unwholesome moral seems to be that it really made no difference with whom his heroine mated, so long as she was bedded. Spectators who are revolted by the "morning after" scene which follows the hasty nuptials and terminates the play, can only wonder, as Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley once did: "Don't children ever play games any more...
...King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether or not I ever make another film. . . . They say I have a duty to England. I wonder just what that duty is? No one wanted me or cared for me in England 17 years ago. I had to go to America for my chance, and I got it there. . . . I am by way of being a student of history. I know that the jester always pays...