Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good clean fun on board ship in "The Captain Hates The Sea," makes us wonder how we ever withstood the lewd sallies of Will Housen movies. Leon Errol, Alison Skipworth, Helen Vinson, Victor McLaglen, and John Gilbert make up an able cast. The captain's uncanny urge to dip beards into soup by pushing the elbows that support them adds a tenseness which is truly genuine. The head steward aware of this weakness forces a passenger to sit next to the captain who provides him with the beard-elbow-soup combination which he is unable to resist. John Gilbert...
...into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief in, and no comprehension of, the patriotic rant they scream at one another. It is small wonder that Mr. O'Casey's unflattering portrait of Dublin Irishmen in the nation's darkest hour caused a riot when it was first produced...
...politicians....I would urge your continued co-operation with these men...." Espousing New Deal economics, the man who threw a scare into big tobaccomen two years ago with the 10? package,* continued: "The farming classes have been let down by too much profit-taking by industrialists. It is no wonder that the game has been broken up. There has been too much takeout. The country cannot have prosperity unless the producing class gets enough to buy back the products of its labor...
...share, the great New York City utility was formally celebrating its 50th anniversary. The exercises were far from gay. President George Bruce Cortelyou, who at one time or another served Roosevelt I as Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster General, was moved to wonder whether, for Consolidated Gas, the first 50 years were really the hardest...
...last practice in Cambridge the Varsity ran through a light workout yesterday without making any changes in either the "A" or "B" team lineups. Coach Casey seems to have decided on his starting lineup beyond any possibility of doubt and observers of his tacties have begun to wonder if he will attempt to copy Yale's "from man" team of last Saturday and keep his starring eleven intact for the full 60 minutes...