Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When newspapers seize upon each insignificant or minor victory to belch blatant, optimistic headlines and then, conversely, relegate our own losses to squeamish type or the back pages, it is no wonder that we are overoptimistic. When Washington luminaries drop intangible statements or "in-the-know" hints about our military successes, but on the other hand hush our defeats ... it can plainly be seen that the burden of guilt rests squarely on the politicians' and publishers' shoulders. That is the main cause of this subconscious letdown in war production...
Americans often wonder what the British see in Punch. But one steady Punch contributor who easily hurdles all transatlantic barriers of humor is shy, blond, 35-year-old Rowland Emett. Emett is a daft satiric cartoonist in the English tradition of Max Beerbohm and Edward Lear. He is the producer of a fine series of affectionate burlesques of the British wartime scene. He is also, first & foremost, a comic master of an internationally favorite theme-the railway...
Today conferees sit solemnly in the real part of the wall where the master's bedroom was, and the false wall hangs perilously over their heads. Today an English A student will walk unknowingly over the trap door, or wonder at the filled in peop-holes...
Today the prosaic men of the English department daily find their way through the labyrinth to get to and from their classes, and the mystery and wonder of Warren House and Henry Clark Warren are being slowly ground back into dust by their everyday heels...
Some of the New Deal's best friends began to wonder last week. Henry Agard Wallace, the man Franklin Roosevelt raised to the Vice-Presidency because he was most nearly the ideal 100% New Dealer-had been dumped by his boss...