Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John O'Hara. A literary wonder: the author's fourth collection of short stories in as many years, and they are excellent...
...bustle and traffic noise of the West, and even conversations among neighbors had a leaden, monotonous quality, with the nuances coming from the eyes. The only color was in the shops, stocked especially for the holiday season with eggs, wurst of all kinds, toys, cosmetics, porcelain and even-wonder of wonders-oranges. The Vopos seemed to be the major consumers of these tropical delicacies, and every snowy crossing point reeked with the tang of orange peel. But everyone knew that by mid-January the East Berlin grocery shops would be back to their drab staples: potatoes, cabbages and weary lentils...
With all this being said, it was no wonder that McCormack's patience gave out. At a news conference, he was badgered by Newshen Sarah McClendon. Would he resign as Speaker and remove himself from the line of succession? McCormack cried: "I am amazed that you would ask such a question. I was elected Speaker and I'm going to remain Speaker. I'm amazed...
...washtub playing that once, while in the Army, he got carried away and played a Quonset hut by nailing the door shut, stringing a wire from the doorknob to the tip of a 10-ft. pole and strumming. "It made a deep, very deep sound," he says, lost in wonder at the effect. His present instrument is a $2.49 Sears, Roebuck washtub, but metal fatigue forces him to buy a new one every month. Both the jug and the stovepipe-a huge crook-necked whistle Richmond invented himself-are played by puckering up and blowing like hell. Three jug tunes...
...late playwright-director Moss Hart and his historic subway trip from The Bronx to Broadway. Hart was a shrewd, witty, candid and flamboyant theater man. As played on the screen by George Hamilton, he seems reserved, artless, uncertain. The movie audience is asked to imagine him as the boy wonder who collaborated with Writer-Director George S. Kaufman on the 1930 comedy smash, Once in a Lifetime. It's hard...