Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers were left to wonder how far Claude Pepper was ahead of U. S. public opinion, how far the bumbling Senate was behind...
...cavorts on a huge statue of a nude. Muriel Page does a dance symbolizing the moth & the flame, in which her wings get burned and the rest of her clothes are hastily doffed to prevent the fire from spreading. But the spirit of burleycue reaches its climax with a "Wonder Woman" named Carrie Finnell, who has no wings to burn...
...view of this despicable type of disloyalty, one may wonder if a mere local student reaction supported by the local press is enough, now that academic freedom, prestige, even tax-exemption are perhaps at stake. . . . No matter what happens in Europe or here, the poise and loyalty of American scholarship must remain above suspicion. Let us not learn too late that the educated fool can cite "historical facts" to prove his purpose just as well as the devil can cite scripture. Furthermore, let us not forget that the original Trojan horse that doomed Troy did not goose-step through...
...Hitler at the war's beginning was anything from a Buck Rogers death ray to hot air. But the sudden, startling capture early last week of Eben Emael fortress, potent key of Bel gium's Liege defense system and synonym to Belgians for Security, made the world wonder. Germany officially announced that this exploit was accomplished by use of a new Angriffsmittel (attack method) operated by one Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot who landed his plane inside the fortress and in a few minutes, "despite heavy de fense measures," rendered its 1,000 occupants so defenseless that...
...against war in Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...