Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant companion and friend. Of course, there are times when I become annoyed with my 'buddy' and then I am likely to turn a haughty back to it, only to return, repentant and lonely, after a few days. . . ." ¶ "I can always satisfy my desires in the wonder...
...yours of the tenth inst. rec'd."). The canned prose is recorded on a roll (something like grandfather's player piano), the roll is inserted in the machine, buttons are pressed for the desired combination, and the machine automatically types them into a letter. Price for this wonder...
Finnegans Wake, a poem of sleep and flux, is also a masterpiece of systematic ambiguity, honoring less the waking mind that made it than the night world of humanity and the mythic "nightmare of history" from which Joyce as a young man said he wished to awake. Critics may wonder if Finnegans Wake is not a huge, jesting and virtuoso footnote to Joyce's simplest and finest poem, Ecce Puer, written soon after his father died and his grandson Stephen was born...
There were fresh reinforcements for the "wonder" drug streptomycin (against which some bugs are fighting back...
Johnson J. Hooper on census-taking in Alabama ("Bless your soul, honey, take a seat. Now do! Are you the gentleman that Mr. Van Buren has sent out? I wonder! Well, good Lord look down, how was Mr. Van Buren and family when you seed...