Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday the eighth wonder occurred--in fact it is the consummation of wonders--the Crimson printed an editorial published a while ago in the Daily. We heard that the Daily was mentioned in the Crimson. We tore around searching for a Crimson (one was found in the Dean's office--it can be seen as a curiosity at any time). We looked on the editorial page, and sure enough; the august Crimson has deigned to notice us. We are not stating just what our reactions were to this notice...
That, we dare suggest, might be the ninth wonder. Peg '32. Radcliffe Daily Letter...
...other end of the line the situation was certainly not a laughing matter. With the revelation that no report has ever been made on the Mayor's own city investigation, begun last July, people began to wonder if it was Mayoring or fun-having that made a vacation seem imperative for the city's chief executive. Even his severest critics, however, could not place the entire responsibility for shortcomings in the city government on the playboy Mayor's slim shoulders. It was recalled that two years ago he said: "If reelected, I will take my advice and leadership from John...
...many U.S. magazine readers ever see a copy of Punch, London's most ancient & honorable humorous weekly (founded 1841). Not many who see Punch do more than look at the pictures, read the often ponderously British captions underneath, wonder what the English see in them to smile at. And there the occa- sional Punch reader is too hasty, for hidden away in those oldfashioned, closely printed columns are to be found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor...
America has not yet completely conceded to the Soviet Republic her place in Europe as object of wonder and condemnation. The strange civilization of the New World, barbarous in its extreme mechanical advancement as well as in its primitivism, is still something of an enigma to the French. Recently a symposium in the Paris Figaro has endeavored to find what the attitude of the European public is on certain aspects of Yankee civilization and ascertain what should be done about...