Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wars was Max Annenberg, first for Hearst, then for the Tribune (he is now Liberty's circulation generalissimo-TIME, July 29). Many a name then or later famed in Chicago's gangland appeared on the payrolls of the newspapers-Gus Altman, Boston Tommy, the Delehanty brothers. Great wonder it would have been if such under-worldlings had not learned from their smart newspaper employers a lot about organized violence and contempt...
...never pursued the key to the secret of life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have left Egypt, I keep rubbing my eyes and wonder why I see badly, or if I am going blind. It is her light that I miss. I must have a first cataract operation...
...until the twentieth century that we begin to take the lead, but after all, with a handicap of several hundred years, are we to blame? In the earlier days the crudest substitutes had to serve for what we consider now basic necessities. Is it then any wonder that the artistic efforts of our colonial ancestors in the field of prints were somewhat crude? This primitive handling which distinguishes the greater part of the early work has caused many collectors, both professional and amateur, to eschew entirely this whole corpus of material...
...quality of those subjects open to them did not warrant any more attention. For obvious reasons, the result was disastrous. After being thrust into an entirely different mode of education, and then being left to the by-no-means capable hands of the average Freshman instructor, it is small wonder that there was considerable trouble...
...Wickersham, chairman of the Law Enforcement Commission, at the Boston Garden Monday night cannot be passed over so lightly. His conclusion that America's policy of legal prohibition has been less successful in reducing alcoholism than the indirect methods employed by England cannot but make the most sincere dry wonder whether his ends might not be better accomplished in some other...