Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years people have been singing "I wonder what's become of Sally," and now the newspapers report Miss Rand as an orator before a group of Harvard boys seeking higher education...
...rest of Welles's story is all Mercury Theatre, but the Mercury Theatre was a lot of things before it became Broadway's wonder child. It was first just an idea, bounded north & south by hope, east & west by nerve. Crossing their Rubicon before they even started to march, Welles & Houseman leased the Comedy Theatre for five years, renamed it the Mercury, then started looking for their first play. When they found Julius Caesar, they started looking for the money to produce it. Houseman combed Wall Street, got dibs & drabs, enough to keep the cast stringing along...
Just like a woman, this 160-pound wonder child of the Congo rushed into his bedroom when confronted by a yellow snake. "He just docan't like Yale men," explained his trainer...
...technique for record-making in the U. S. But when a Russian named Victor Rastorgeff went up over the perfectly flat country of central Russia last May and on successive flights soared 335, 374, 405 miles (previous world's record: 313 miles), U. S. soaring experts began to wonder if the hills around Elmira, N.Y. and on the edges of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley really are the best places in the country for their sport. Richard Chichester du Pont, Paul du Pont, and Lewin Barringer of the Soaring Society of America looked at a map, picked...
...heart, let earth go whirling, and never wonder...