Word: wonderfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Hemingway, on the other hand, had one of the "most provocative faces in the world," declared the Artists League of America. Other faces that moved the league to exclamations of wonder: Hirohito's ("provokes pity") and Cinemactress Ava Gardner's ("provokes libido"). Hemingway's face, said the artists, "provokes annoyance...
Could any President have done more than Hoover did to turn back the economic tide? Those who remembered Hoover's ineffectual insistence that prosperity was just around the corner might still wonder. Whatever the causes of the depression, to them Hoover remained its perfect symbol. But the concession was enough to send New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock into fits of dignified glee. Crowed Krock: "A sweeping verdict of 'not guilty,' by this particular juror . . . must have astonished Herbert Hoover more than anything in years...
When science had done so much, what might science not do? In Massachusetts last week, many a fanner and townsman listened to word of the newest miracle, eager to believe. And the wonder grew-for a while...
...Peace to All Men." Other things came out too. This was not the first time that Brown had claimed a wonder-working discovery. Born in Portugal of a U.S. seaman father, he had owned a drugstore in New Bedford, Mass., but had also run a "clinic" where patients were treated for everything from cancer to polio. On Nov. 13, 1939, he had been fined $1,000 for illegal practice of medicine, later had the sentence nullified. John Brown says he was framed...
...work. If he doesn't get it, he almost kicks the slats out of his stall. Rather than burn up the energy in morning workouts, Trainer Jimmy Jones decided last week that it was more profitable to give Citation his work in the afternoon. Jones entered the wonder horse in the $50,000 Stars & Stripes handicap at Arlington Park, Ill., his first race since winning the triple crown (TIME, June 21). It was only Citation's third race against older horses, easily the toughest handicap field he had ever faced. He was giving away chunks of weight...