Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls cutting in, a condition which pleased me exceedingly. More than one girl solved the problem of my natural timidness by requesting me to dance with her. The young ladies were superb dancers, and displayed such high moral standards in their conversations and actions that I could not but wonder at the usual type of mind encountered at Harvard dances. This dance, I am sure, should be an elevating influence upon all future social gatherings of the College...
...Gifford Pinchot: General Johnson*. . . I wonder if you ever stay awake at night seeing the faces of the thousands of men and women who are pacing the streets of Pennsylvania towns, jobless and desperate, without resources and with despair in their hearts, because they had faith in your promises and went ahead and organized a union and for so doing lost their jobs, and never a finger in Washington lifted to help them...
...Wonder Bar"--Columbia recording. From the movie of the same name. Emil Coleman's orchestra gives the tune the proper sentimental treatment; it is much better than the Victor recording with Freddy Martin's orchestra which depends entirely on the too tricky booming bass effects. The backing is merely filler: "I Love Gardenias" from the "Palais Royal Revue...
...seek his destiny as have most men before him. Mr. Peattie's conception of Europe--rather the opposite of Spengler's declining West--grew out of the Riviera's fascinating cosmos of disrupted society. He sees Western civilization as an unprecedented precocity, dangerous, egotistic, brilliant and exciting--the wonder child of the ages. So the story of Kyril came to be written...
Director Busby Berkeley to make three chorus girls out of one and to turn a waltz routine into something that resembles a panorama painting of an army on the march. Songs in Wonder Bar are superior to those which Al Jolson sang in its stage version in Manhattan four years after he made the first successful talkie. The Jazz Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin...