Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permit a gentleman of the old school to congratulate you for calling public attention to Senator Blease's speech in the Senate on blasphemy. I wonder if you are going to have the courage to report Senator Smoot's threatened speech about "smut," if and when he makes it? Reformers we shall always have with us but I did hope I could live to see the day when naughty-minded old men would no longer be allowed to sit in the Senate. . . . To excuse themselves they attack the objects of their attention in the name of Righteousness. When...
Wide was the wonder throughout the land last week as Chicago, the Second City, floundered deeper into its spectacular mire of public debt. Rarely before has a full-grown municipality made such a financial exhibition of itself. There was no money in the City Treasury, none in Cook County Treasury, none in the School Board Treasury. The 23 park boards were penniless, the largest, South Park, abandoning its preparations for the Centennial Fair until it could sell a bond issue. The credit of city and county agencies was practically exhausted...
Composer. The music of Rimsky-Korsakov is shining, ornamental stuff, richly Russian in its sheen. That it is smooth, well made, is a never-ending source of wonder to those acquainted with the facts of his career. For Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov did not begin life as a musician. He was sent to the Naval College at St. Petersburg as befitted the son of an aristocrat. For eleven years he served in the navy, on one cruise visited the U. S. But all that time his thoughts were on music-on the sort that a small Jewish band had played...
...However, I have seen one or two fairly good-looking girls at Radcliffe". Ah, the blase air with which Mr. Dennis utters his profound observations! Lord Byron could hardly have written it more grandly. We understand, of course, that he has investigated the matter thoroughly, and yet--er--we wonder if he has ever tried to get a Radcliffe dormitory on the telephone in the evening? And has he taken into account the statistical proof that 57 per cent of the Radcliffe women marry Harvard men? "They seek no closer association", say you, Mr. Dennis? But, of course, they probably...
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. ("Don't wonder at the tremendous grosses the Paramount Exhibitor is piling up. He's not pulling 1929 pictures out of the icebox and hoping they'll eat 'em up; he's giving them 1930 Paramount hits right off the fire and they're flocking to the feast" [advertisement in Jan. 8 Variety] ) : $15,500,000 (estimated) as against...