Word: puzzlement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors who sat in on the polio symposium learned something of this from Dr. Salk himself. They had gone there, full of admiration and curiosity, to hear him and see him get a $10,000 award* for his achievements. They listened attentively, some with obvious puzzlement, as he read a long and tightly technical report. Its net: mass manufacture was not the same as making vaccine in his precisely controlled laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh...
...When the Prince, Keith Gardiner, is singing, he is fine, but otherwise he is awkward, as is the King, Michael Pollatsek. Pollatsek, however, is supposed to be funny. One only wonders why he adopted the manner of a melodrama villain. The Fairy Godmother's Oriental shuffle is likewise a puzzlement...
...most fashionable reactions to The Cocktail Party is to be bored, to affect puzzlement, and to assert that other people like it because it is fashionable to like T. S. Eliot. Actually there is no reason for this manifestation of reverse snobbery, for a nodding acquaintance with the views of Mr. Eliot and a quick perusal of the published form of the play (Lamont stocks several copies) suffice to prepare one for a most stimulating and interesting evening of theatre...
...hours, one day last week, 32,000 little Londoners, aged 10½ to 11½, sat at their school desks puzzling over such questions as these. Their puzzlement was fierce, as if they thought their very lives depended on their answers. In their estimate of the seriousness of the test, the young Londoners were pretty much right...
Last week Alice's admirers had a chance to share her puzzlement. Two different film versions of Alice, both billed as Alice in Wonderland, appeared almost simultaneously on U.S. movie screens...