Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phoney halo I'm trying to tie up on my bean, this is Elsie. I just want to be happy, and I'm going to be, as soon as I can do everything for everybody that I want to do without some one thinking, 'I wonder what she gets for doing that...
Lester Cohen was born 34 years ago in Chicago, wrote a novel of department-store life (Sweepings) which became a bestseller, then settled in Hollywood to write for the movies. He says in Two Worlds that after years of this work he set forth "bound for the beauty and wonder of the world, and a better understanding of our troubled, chaotic time." With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths...
...much publicized and gushed-over, by sob sisters, Peggy Ann Landon, in a Cleveland restaurant famed for its good, high-powered beer. Wonder what bone-dry Kansans think of this...
...people of Italy and the people of Germany are now just about the only ones in Europe who do have stomach to fight. "I feel convinced," added Mr. Baldwin, "that in many countries, including our own and France, there is such loathing of war . . . that I sometimes wonder if they would march [i.e., fight] on any other occasion than if they believed their own frontiers were in danger. I do not know the answer to the question, but I often ask myself the question, and I wonder-and when you begin to wonder on these points your wonderings may travel...
What a shortstop is to a pitcher, what a tail is to a kite, what a pin is to a pinwheel -Bill Hawkins is to Roy Howard. In 1906 when Roy Howard, a brash boy wonder two years off the Cincinnati Post, was made New York manager of the brand new Scripps' Publishers' Press Association at $50 a week (which he agreed to plough back for stock), his first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years...