Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ministers approved of Carry Nation's activities two generations ago, the Ministerial Association of Alton backed up Mrs. Kite last week. Its 16 members announced that they "endorsed and appreciated" her accomplishments, declaring: "We note that this lady with the ax is to be prosecuted. . . . We wonder at the sudden zeal of the officials...
...profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could not "account for his impulses.'' Meanwhile, impulsive Mr. Marien had been charged with what seemed to be an extracurricular forgery for $141.75. New York Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall, who was shaking his head over the case, began to wonder if it were quite so clear an example of frustration as the newspapers thought. Interstate Hosiery stock had gone up from $7 to $42.50 a share while Mr. Marien was doing its accounting. That fact was noted with interest by SEC. But before Mr. McCall and SEC can find...
...instead, on his parlor wall, between 'The American's Creed' and the portrait of Mr. Roosevelt. ... If there were no jobholders at all every taxpayer's income would be increased twenty-seven percent. Such is the bill for being saved from revolution and ruin by Wonder...
...Bear Run, Pa. (TIME, Jan. 17). Sealed in the masonry of this building is a burlap bag containing comments by well-known Pittsburgh architects on the plans, few of whom thought it could be built successfully. It was built so successfully that many a gallerygoer has been led to wonder how the New York World's Fair, like the Chicago Fair before it, has managed to ignore Architect Wright. Last week in the New Yorker Critic Lewis Mumford spoke out on this point in a review of Weight's latest work. "These . . . houses show Frank Lloyd Wright...
...volume after volume, critics suspected that Faulkner had some unified plan that would become apparent when his cycle of books was completed. But when Pylon was published three years ago. with a high-pitched story of aviation that bore no relation to his other novels, critics began to wonder if he had any plan at all. And when Absalom, Absalom! appeared in 1936, it looked as if he had been laying out dead-end streets in the wilderness...