Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of his critics and, in fact, some of his friends, wonder whether the well-trained lawyer has the capacity for more than an impersonal view of people and of history. Some of his friends, who do not question his ability to execute policy, wonder whether he has the imagination to become a creator and formulator of policy...
Last week, a gang of burglars attested to the value of the "love for sale" ads by breaking into the Anzeigen Zentrale, one of Stuttgart's largest billboard agencies. They not only rifled the safe but stole a batch of applicants' letters. "I wonder," mused Agency Boss Erwin Schaeuffele, "whether the burglars won't succeed in winning some of my lady applicants. Many of them are pretty desperate, you know...
...furloughed all along the line. Chewing on an old pipe, retired farmer "Granpa" Burkett declared: "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Up to that point, people were saying that things would straighten out. Now they sit around the union halls and wonder whether they should move to some place where there is more varied opportunity...
Telling What Comes Naturally. In that crowd there will be many who remember Louis Armstrong and his music, for he and New Orleans jazz grew up together. Louis says: "Jazz and I grew up side by side when we were poor." The wonder is that both jazz and Louis emerged from streets of brutal poverty and professional vice-jazz to become an exciting art, Louis to be hailed almost without dissent as its greatest creator-practitioner...
Last December, when nominations closed for the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity Stakes, Elizabeth Arden Graham decided to let her Ace Admiral stay in his stall. Citation, 1948's wonder horse, looked like an obvious shoo-in. Then Citation injured his left foreleg, and temporarily retired from the wars. Hastily Mrs. Graham's Maine Chance Farm shipped Ace Admiral west, and plunked down $5,000 for the handsome chestnut colt's late entry in the Maturity...