Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent issue of TIME [Nov. 15] I found the address of a recruiting station of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria. ... I have lost this issue and the address. I wonder if I could have this looked up for me. Some of the boys here would like to join the Legion and be paroled to the French Government if possible. . . . We would sincerely appreciate this information...
...result was a story of espionage which made Army officials wonder whether the spies or Mr. Cummings' agents who arrested them had been the bigger bunglers...
...Divine, Harlem cultist whose followers believe he is God, has many "extensions" or "kingdoms." Chief one until last week was a three-story building, rank with human and culinary odors, which he rented on Manhattan's 115th Street. Why this kingdom had not long since collapsed was the wonder of any outsider who ever attended a meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently in good shape, was sold...
Fantastic? Perhaps, the Vagabond reflects. But who knows? Who really knows? Certainly all he can do is to wonder, to guess, to imagine; but in the meantime he plans to go to Harvard 1 this noon to hear Professor Bruce Hopper lecture on "The relations of Soviet Russia with Europe and America...
...taste of Presidents Hoover and Wilson and of other prominent people for detective stories has been so publicized, said Detective-Story Writer Carolyn Wells, that now when bystanders see a man buying a detective story they wonder, "What great captain of industry is this...