Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly vulnerable and abhorrent to the small minds. The result was that the majority of American soldiers throughout their Army careers have been insulted by the mutilation of every principle of personal integrity for which most of them knew in their hearts they were fighting. Is it any wonder they apply political pressure...
When Wilde's plays first appeared on the London stage they were called and it is no wonder--the "greatest comedies since Congreve." After the Victorian theatre, with its platitudinous melodramas and sentimental farces, Wilde's comedies of manners, brilliant and epigrammatic, with a high polish of artificiality, constituted a revival so sudden that it seemed an innovation...
...long since receded to the blander pleasures of upper-middle-class suburbia in Stamford, Conn, and -with a mild sheepishness about the stylish address, and sincere enough murmurs about the Websters' susceptibility to colds- winters in Palm Beach. For years the Websters were enthusiastic theatergoers; now they wonder whether anything is as much worth coming into town for as the last show they saw, Oklahoma! Webster used to play poker every Friday night through Sunday morning, in a room in the old Waldorf-Astoria. The concentration was such that once, when food was sent up, and he chomped...
...state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill him with wonder. ". . . All that is best io China is crystallized in their presence." Forever China is a literary adventure and discovery. It sometimes suffers from, overwriting and hyperbole. But these are minor flaws among the major pleasures of a superior book. There is a good sample of the Payne style in his evaluation...
Throughout the war, millions of blood donors faithfully kept their appointments, rain or shine, sick or well, drunk or sober.* Many of them now wonder when, and if, they will be called on to give blood again. Won't civilians, at least, still need blood...