Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your cover of Briggs Cunningham: I wonder if Artist Baker intended the driver of car No. i to look like Johnny Fitch, internationally famed racing driver. It looks like...
...years served as principal of the Lincoln High School in Los Angeles. But in spite of all that time in service, her retirement pay in 1944 turned out to be a meager $60 a month. Though she had some money of her own, Ethel Andrus began to wonder how the rest of the nation's 140,000 retired teachers were able to make...
Thenceforward, the little priest lives like "a prisoner of the holy agony." He prays and prays. The pain in his stomach grows worse. One day he collapses, staring in terror and wonder at a vision of the face of Christ-"the face of a child, but without any lighting." A little later he succumbs to cancer of the stomach. He dies murmuring in ecstasy, "All is grace...
...African air bases; Iraq, to bid on a dam project; Italy, to check on a tunnel through the Italian Alps. Many of Morrison's other jobs are in primitive, undeveloped countries, where MK's giant power shovels and 18-ton bulldozers are as much a source of wonder as the iron horse was to the Indians a century ago. In these countries, M-K has caused roses to grow in deserts, electric power and wealth to flow from forbidding mountain streams, new skills to enrich poverty-stricken natives. In all his endeavors, Harry Morrison does not forget that...
...settings are a real wonder-perfect secondhand château; and the photography catches them in just that faintly too-dreamy glow in which they are seen by Mlle. Julie's girls. The acting is first rate. In scene after scene, Edwige Feuillere's performance as Julie rings like fine glass. Marie-Claire Olivia as Olivia does very well with a fairly monotonous part, and Simone Simon is real as the spoiled, catlike Cara. but perhaps does not display quite strongly enough the ravages of her moral mange...