Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advertising Mr. Holmes as the single star is a deception--everyone in the cast is entitled to such distinction. Seldom has Boston seen a more charming ingenue than Florence Shirley, as the Flapper. She appeals without being saccharine, and is so attractively vivacious that it is no small wonder the movie magnates have not attempted to rob the "legitimate" of another "queen." And so on right down the program, Charles Abbs as Pops, Lillian Lawrence as Grandma, the demon and John Hogan as Mason reflect nothing but great credit on the presenters of the jolly piece...
...business today is a direct result of doing the unnecessary. We have all experienced the feeling of incredulity when we discover a man seriously at work on some course of his own making which is not in the College curriculum. We feel a curious mixture of sensations; a little wonder, a little of something much akin to envy, and perhaps unqualified condemnation of his conduct...
...general staging of "Step This Way" is faultless, the carnival scene being particularly effective. In the chorus, however, much is lacking, which might escape notice were this body not so frequently in evidence, but since no remarkable dancing is seen and this, coupled with an absence of beauty, we wonder for what function this good old American Institution is intended; if just to pass the time we lose patience, for we long ago have ceased to expect real singing...
...chance to even thank the gentleman who gave it, but I think he was a real hero and under the circumstances an exceptional one. How many, I wonder, in an election bustle of young people, would have thought of a little boy, even if they had noticed him. This was in itself a remarkable thing...
...absurd length. Head coaches are sometimes paid more for their eight-weeks season than a college professor gets for his entire year's work. To help him the coach must also have a regular squadron of assistants trainers and other subordinates, all of them drawing good salaries. No wonder it costs more to put one football gladiator on the gridiron than the average student spends in a whole year at college. Yet some of the institutions which can afford to be so prodigal in coaching and coddling their athletic teams are the ones which cry out continually that they have...