Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles, waving his glasses in the air and pointing them towards Vishinsky, replied with icy indignation: "I will not jump at the crack of Mr. Vishinsky's whip . . . But I have been here three days listening to Mr. Vishinsky and I wonder who at this table is the cook...
Arriving at Butlin's Filey Camp on the Yorkshire coast last fortnight with his wife Mary, their two children and some 400 other workers from the Midland's woolen-weaving city of Bradford, Alf Murgatroyd had little time to stand and wonder what next. Bustling all around him on the long, flat station platform was a group of bright young girls and athletic men in red blazers. Bursting with good cheer, they whisked Alf and his friends over green fields to a cluster of glass-sided buildings topped by a huge white tower bearing the word "Butlin...
...Sample joke: "I wonder why they always talk about a doctor practicing...
...lectured them for an hour or so, "as impressive as Mussolini addressing his massed followers." Her favorite song was The Trail of the Lonesome Pine; but she was nearly as devoted to a radio commercial, "Yo ho yo ho yo ho yo ho, we are the makers of Wonder Bread." Cryptograms fascinated her too; she could never have enough of her favorite...
...Duchess of Windsor, resplendent in blue at the fair's opening, was heard to remark that she found Picasso's new things "beautiful, but I wonder what use one could make of them." Whatever their possible use, Picasso had obviously enjoyed making them. When night fell on the fair's opening day, Picasso turned smiling to an assistant in his factory workroom and said, "You know, Jules, I am happy here. I think I'll never leave...