Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington and the country that the Army, for all its fine spirit. was not equipped or trained to step into the breach (TIME, Feb. 19). Their words were airily swept aside as sour grapes. But last week a sense of shocked surprise ran through the land. Citizens began to wonder if, after all, the commercial operators were not right, if President Roosevelt was not wrong on his airmail policy. Newspaper editors wailed loudly that the toll of the Army's first week with the airmail was too high a price to pay for "purging" commercial aviation of some wrongdoing...
...Wonder Bar (Warner) is the Grand Hotel of musical pictures. It delineates occurrences in an elaborate Paris night club run by Al Wonder (Al Jolson), where a lovely patroness (Kay Francis) bored with her husband, a depraved dancer (Ricardo Cortez) and his svelte partner (Dolores Del Rio), an impoverished financier and the eccentric but high-spirited host involve themselves in the emotional entanglements customarily reserved for one room melodrama...
...room in Wonder Bar is one of the most versatile yet employed as a cinema set. It gives the appearance of containing innumerable tables, an extensive bar, a sunken dance floor, and an enormous stage. Mirrors and revolving floors enable Dance...
Until nearly a hundred years ago, almost any date seemed to suffice. But in 1855, Harvard contemplated celebrating its bicentenary and began to wonder about its age. Consequently, a committee was appointed to determine the facts. President Quincy, Joseph Story, and James Walker were chosen, and the records that remain suggest that their investigation stirred up some very polite but sharp dissension. Some of the letters exchanged show a pronounced tinge of bitterness...
...much like a Hula-Hula girl." It is interesting to know that before every meal each of the waitresses in the Union must pass in review and execute an about-face in front of Miss Murray. Any traces of powder, rouge or lipstick call for serious rebuke. Little wonder that many of the waitresses resort to the Tent and Normandie ballrooms for relief. Well, despite our old-fashioned regulations, perhaps the situation down at Yale is worse. There no waitresses under 25 years of age are hired...