Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When we read; for instance, that he thought Boston "a vast jumbled waste created by prehuman or subhuman monsters in a delirium of greed," we wonder what possibilities of contrast are left him if he should describe Europe's real "jumbled waste" cities. . . . For us, this "largest force lately to appear on the horizon of American letters" is a man to amuse a very prosperous culture which can still permit itself the undermining, disheartening, demoralizing effect of his kind of literature...
...colleague who chided him in the same vein, Morris Cohen had an equally acid answer: "The students are getting information from all of the other teachers. What would you think of a plumbing system with all faucets and no outlets?" It was small wonder that Professor Cohen often inspired more admiration than affection...
...years of breath-taking success, these have carried him through, two Broadway musicals (Lady in the Dark, Let's Face It), two movies (Up In Arms, Wonder Man), 39 weeks of a new kind of radio show and numberless vaudeville appearances. This year, such activity will bring him more than...
...found Hollywood stifling, tiring and dull; and he missed the quick reactions of an audience. Up In Arms and Wonder Man were neither the best cinema nor the best Kaye. They mixed some old and new numbers by Sylvia with some old and older tricks by Goldwyn. But they had some wonderful, isolated Kaye routines (Bali Boogie, Lobby Song) and they were smash box office. Kaye's new picture, The Kid from Brooklyn, a remake of Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way, is due for release in mid-April...
...Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts," the postcard said. It was mailed in Brooklyn, U.S.A. "I wonder," pondered Mrs. Madeline Sullivan of the University Information Office, "what this could be about? Trees, maybe? Or bums? Probably not an application for admission; most Brooklynites stayed in the Regular Army. Three squares a day, you know...