Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder what plans have been made for our participation in the celebration. Are the celebrants at home agreeable to our knocking off for a few days' hat-buying-and-guzzling fling...
Still frankly wrestling with himself, Ben Hecht declined to join a Dewey com mittee on the grounds that he was a "slightly confused follower of Mr. Roosevelt. My confusion arises out of wonder as to whether I admire Mr. Roosevelt or dislike his enemies...
...Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
...Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The last time Turkish Premier Sükrü Saracoglu saw Moscow was in 1939, when Russia vainly tried to persuade him to close the Straits to other powers. Premier Saracoglu had not had a very pleasant visit in Moscow. Well might he wonder last week if he would not soon again be a guest in Spasso House...
...covers the whole world. The other stories are trial balloons inflated by Gerald. They involve an eerie Gothic cathedral, with a mystic message for those who know how to find it ; an English spinster who is saved from suicide by tooth ache and theosophy; a couple of professors who wonder if they can exchange bodies simply by willing it. (They can.) But the nicest concurrence of the two Heards comes in the subtle, uncanny Rousing of Mr. Bradegar, the story of a simple dream. The dreamer may be 1 ) a man lying in bed and recalling his boyhood...