Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder how many of us realize that at the present time there is a golden opportunity to win Soviet Russia into the fraternity of freedom-loving peoples, after she had willfully isolated herself from the rest of the world for more than 20 years...
...wonder then, that Boston audiences were bewildered and outraged when asked to imagine Mr. sycamore turning into a tree. True, the play was imperfectly written and directed. But the important point if that the audience was incapable of fulfilling the basic demand of the play, even had it been well done. Technical advances are not yet great enough to perform the tree trick with sufficient realism. It was an unfamiliar idea, an impossible idea. Therefore they could not imagine it, even for one evening. The play failed because the audience failed...
...IBBMISBWHA's business agent in Portland, was a boilermaker during World War I's shipbuilding boom, saw union funds wasted then, decided to avoid similar squandering this time by building a marble-fronted palace for his union on Portland's Third Avenue. To querulous persons who wonder how this prevents waste, Tommy Ray explains: "This is no extravagance. When the boom is over, the money we'll make off our bowling alleys alone will keep the building going...
Last week the authorities ordered 18 Italian-Americans excluded from the San Francisco military area as dangerous to security-the first such action against white citizens. The wonder was that it was not done earlier: everybody heard about the goings on in the North Beach Italian colony. Fascists there used to say RoBerTo as a greeting-Ro for Rome, Ber for Berlin, To for Tokyo. Italy sent teachers, books and medals for the Italian schools. Mussolini won a popularity contest hands down over Franklin Roosevelt...
Died. Tony, the late Tom Mix's famed "wonder horse"; of euthanasia; in San Fernando, Calif...