Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently said, "I wonder what happened to Chapman. Maybe Melville stopped writing." That is not what happened to Chapman. Between the time his play closed off-Broadway and opened on, Chapman had to do the cocktail party circuit, wooing backers. He and Coxe had to rewrite the play several times to suit other people's preferences. All this was distasteful to him and is one reason why he calls himself an "ex-playwright...
...Paris, but dry white wine with crème de cassis is an old Burgundian pick-me-up known as rinse cochon, pig rinse. As Mayor of Dijon the good Canon Kir must know the drink's real name. I wonder if he finds it flattering...
...home. He had two unsuccessful marriages before wedding Clara Zitz Kresge in 1928, made a handsome settlement in each case. Some donations were based on his personal code. "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf of the use of alcoholic beverages," Kresge once said, "I wonder if I might not have discovered them in all these years." On those grounds, when Prohibition arrived he gave $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, and personally organized a National Vigilance Committee to help enforce the 18th Amendment...
...embarrassment at being part of a crowd of 12-year-old girls (at some concerts) or of black-leather-jacketed toughs (at the Righteous Brothers). When you hear the music you came to hear, it's all worthwhile. But the other 75 per cent of the time, you wonder if you're crazy
...have been puzzled if someone had told him that the reason for Mao's burst of activity was the Chairman's approaching death. No one knows at what point Mao first began to worry about when he was going to die, but at that moment he apparently began to wonder if the Chinese Communist Revolution could survive without...