Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandmother that Martha is up to tricks with Karen's fiancé. Old Mrs. Tilford feels bound to tell the parents of other girls. The school goes to pieces, Karen and Martha lose a slander suit, and, in the sudden horror of the situation, Karen begins to wonder if the story might be true. Even when Martha finally proves the lie, it is too late to do much good...
...labour unions, people who inform, on the activities of their fellow workers are known as "stool pigeons" and "rats". We wonder whether Harvard students, who have not yet had much acquaintance with such people, will recognize John J. Reidy and his fellow editors for what they are. We know that Benny Goodman and William Gouldston, the thugs of the Boston Red Squad, will see kindred souls in the "Crimson" sanctum...
Same day, Administrator Hopkins revealed an incident which made observers wonder just how much he does not know about what is going on in his vast WPA machine. Up to last month he had been under the impression that certain buildings being built with WPA funds in four Mississippi towns were going to be used as vocational training schools. Last month he discovered that instead, they were about to be turned over to private manufacturers for use as textile mills. Local newspapers had been publicizing this perversion right along. The supply of funds was promptly stopped, an investigation started...
...produce a song on any subject if he is given an hour's notice. But Warners' boast is bigger. Musical cinemas seemed doomed until Harry Warren and Al Dubin turned out the tunes for Forty-Second Street, went on to do Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Wonder Bar, Twenty Million Sweethearts. Fortnight ago their Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935) was voted the best song of the year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (TIME, March...
...feeling pervading all Germany that the world hated her and wanted to enslave her for all time. It is just the kind of feeling that your editorial represents and the kind of action that it endorses that put Hitler more firmly in the saddle and make many of us wonder whether he isn't justified in renouncing dictated treaties...