Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule I don't agree with Russian viewpoints, but Lieut. Colonel Kotko is right when he says tipping is un-Marxian [TIME, Jan. 17]. I believe it is also undemocratic. I wonder whether all these people, the barbers and waiters and cab drivers, realize that by expecting so eagerly to be tipped, they place themselves in a servile position towards their fellow citizens...
Bathtubs, Beams. At week's end, the President had one request of his own to make of a caller. After a thorough inspection of the White House, Architect Lorenzo Winslow announced that the building was much worse off than anyone had suspected. It was a wonder that Harry Truman, sitting in his second-story bathtub, hadn't plunged down to the basement. A complete White House repair job would require ripping out all interior walls and beams, replacing everything up to the outer shell. The cost would be about $7,000,000 (just seven times the original estimate...
...voice often began, "Hello, gang . . ." It reminded "all you kids" of the girls back home. "I just wonder if she isn't sort of running around with . . . 4-Fs . . ." It suggested ". . . throw down those little old guns and toddle off home . . . there's no getting the Germans down . . ." "What," it asked, "will [wounded men] think in later years when there are no jobs for cripples...
...every dollar bet at California horse tracks and would like to get more; Santa Anita's cut of the betting runs from 7% to 9%). But if Doc was alarmed he showed no sign of it. His greatest disappointment seemed to be that injured Citation, the wonder horse, would not run at Santa Anita this winter. The snow and weather had been doublecrossing Doc, nipping his hundreds of thousands of marigolds in the bud. Was he planning any economy moves? Not Doc Strub. Said he: "I'm not planning any cuts, this season or the next...
...Said Distributor Joe Burstyn, whose firm imported Paisan, Open City and other highly successful foreign films, "When I see what a few young people with good ideas can do when they take a camera and go out on the streets of New York, I wonder why the hell we go overseas to look for good pictures...