Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Protestant Nebraskans who crowded into Omaha to gawk and wonder, the Congress seemed just what it was, a great convention staged with more splendor than Protestants are wont to marshal. The Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate at Washington, opened the religious program with a pontifical high mass at St. Cecilia's Cathedral. Archbishop Francis J. L. Beckman of Dubuque preached an emotional sermon. Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland assembled the Priests' Eucharistic League and admonished the men to greater activities in the propaganda of Catholicism. George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago and U. S. Circuit Judge Martin Thomas Manton...
...been caught under it; some were on their feet, pulling at it. The sloop was coming up into the wind. The trouble was clear now: Shamrock's main halyard had snapped. "What a pity," said Sir Thomas Lipton as though to himself. He called his secretary, Major Westwood. "I wonder if anyone is overboard or hurt," he said. "See what you can get on the radio...
...when they see one. From the circumspect shadows of Beacon Street to the more bizarre shades of Revere there is always the cry that this city never gets a good play. Judging from the perverse manner in which these same people choose to distribute their patronage, it is little wonder that the producers do not turn the city over to the Mutual Burlesque circuit and content themselves with more discriminating cities...
...mounted the rostrum "Uncle Arthur" looked strangely thin. No wonder. He had just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United...
Through The Night is a very dull and tiresome little piece which starts lamely and concludes likewise, with moments of tedium during which spectators wonder what the actors can find to say next. It is billed as a comedy, the work of Samuel...