Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Harry Truman rode in glory through the thunder of applause to the White House.* From the north portico, he told the cheering crowd: "It is overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon...
Somoza may wonder now why he ever got involved in such a silly business. Over in the Dominican Republic, Dictator Trujillo brazened it out, elected himself a fourth time. Somoza, on the other hand, found that Leonardo Argüello, the stooge he had got elected, did not intend to be a stooge. Argüello began calling on Guardia officers to declare their loyalty to him. Almost half of them did. Then Argüello overreached himself: he gave Tachito Somoza a dressing down, banished him from the capital. Papa Tacho moved in. Argüello fled...
...these played under the name of Russ Randolph, having reference to the western half of Adams House. As a matter of fact the Plympton-Bow Street area of those days was a New Orleans in microcosm, swarming with musical talent, and so it is no wonder that when the two groups merged the result was christened the Gold Coast Orchestra...
...finished this six-day wonder last week were La Fayette's Price brothers, James, 37, and George, 31, whose National Homes Corp. had been built up with the same speed as the house. Since they had opened a factory eight years ago, with money put up by relatives and friends, National Homes has become one of the biggest U.S. builders of prefabricated houses. It has turned out 13,500, including 7,500 wartime emergency units...
...Wonder-Boy Welles has an imaginative way with a camera. His stark and gloomy settings create a fine mood for tragedy. The 11th Century Scotland of this movie is a rough, barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text...