Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I was a little chunk of a shirt-tailed lad, a-hoeing corn on the steep hillside, I'd get to the end of a row and look up Troublesome Creek and wonder ij anybody would ever come to larn the young 'uns. Nobody ever come in. Nobody ever went out. We jist growed up and never knowed nothin'. I can't read nor write; many of my chilluns can't read nor write, but I have grands and greats as is the purtiest speakin' and the easiest larnin' of any chilluns...
...Harvard Lampoon chose "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan as movie actress most unlikely to succeed. Said she in Hollywood, where she earns approximately $100,000 a year: "I wonder what those bozos think is success. ... I don't mind criticism, but I hate to have it come from Harvard. ... I met a Harvard man once, myself. It was a very sad evening...
Exhausted after three straight hours of rehearsed at the Schubert theatre, Colbina Wright, Jr. sunk into a vacant seat and smiled wearily: "Now do you wonder why I get mad when people ask me whether I am serious about my career? Do you think I'd be working like this if I was just having a good time, Why last spring in New York we played 45 shows a week with Eddie Cantor...
Because Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale swimmers handed Princeton a merciless 61 to 41 shellacking Wednesday night, followers of the tank sport in Cambridge have begun to wonder if the top heavy more wasn't caused by a remark Tiger mentor Howie Stepp was alleged to have made...
...Nita Naldi and Cobina Wright, Jr. Nita is dark and over-weight. Junior is blonde and slim. He stature is picturesque. She deserves to have a play built completely around her--a play which would just stop in the middle and give the audience a chance to look and wonder...