Word: wonderment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later that afternoon Stewart's wife Mary Ann drove him to the airport. "He was jittery," she recalls. "He kept wondering what had gone wrong." While sitting in his room in Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel that evening, waiting for Rogers to call, Stewart flicked on the TV set and heard, for the first time, that Associate Justice Harold Hitz Burton was retiring from the Supreme Court. "I said to myself, 'My golly, I wonder whether this...
...wonder if Goren, "perhaps the world's most tolerant partner," would forgive the unforgivable blunder TIME committed in the name of the Gerber Convention when TIME responds "four diamonds for one ace, four hearts for two, etc." Four diamonds, of course, means no aces...
...Eighth Wonder...
...comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...
...shouldn't have let that brain fall on the rug. Next time St. Vincent's." He is "on" whenever he rides a plane. He likes to look down on the snow-covered Rockies and say to a stranger sitting next to him: "Looky there. I wonder what that means. HELP. Oops . . . there it goes. Snow blowed over it. Tough luck, Jack...