Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder Father Coughlin preaches about blood money," cried a woman shareholder. "Here we are without a cent while you men store up millions. Mr. Grace should know that there are no pockets in shrouds...
...philanthropic ends.* Offered a drink or a cigar, Mr. Kresge says politely: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others." Another Kresgeism: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf of the use of alcoholic beverages, I wonder if I might not have discovered them in all these years...
THIS volume, which is the third in the series "Life and Art in Photography," contains one hundred photographs of the principal breeds. Laymen often wonder how the experts can talk so glibly about the details which distinguish one breed from another. Few people can have known so much about dogs as Dr. Johnson, who was no expert, and who certainly did not learn what he knew from wiping his greasy fingers, after dinner, on the ready back of a collie. It is important, observed Dr. Johnson, that the bull-dog possess tenuity; the hind-legs must be relatively thin. Everybody...
...people who buy stock in a munitions firm and cash their dividend checks with alacrity should turn up at stockholders' meetings to make trouble is an endless source of honest wonder to General Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, Chairman of Vickers...
...salary to $10,000 a year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank MacTavish, a gelding he nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby...