Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just read . . . "Best-Covered Story" by Robert Sherrod [TIME, Dec. 13]. He says reporters "never try to rush onto a beachhead typewriter in hand." I wonder where Richard Johnston...
...because we Jesuits are going to be identified with the Reconstruction of the Social Order that the job is half finished. We are five thousand strong, aren't we? I get the impression that we are going to do all tour work on paper and in conventions. I wonder who's going to do the leg work. I wonder who is going to break down the philosophy and the scheme and the propaganda into one-syllable words. I wonder who is going to supply the blood of martyrdom...
...great was the quantity of U.S.-made instruments of war piling up in England for the invasion that some Englishmen remarked: it was a wonder that the island did not sink under the weight...
...high school in Brooklyn because Jane Cowl and other stagefolk had gone there. He dashed straight from Brown University to Broadway, sat around in automats dissecting the drama with an aspiring young friend named Moss Hart. Later he sat at the feet of "the master," Jed Harris. Harris produced Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy produced Hollywood offers. But Hollywood (Craig's Wife, Yellow Jack), for Chodorov, is purely bread-&-butter...
Dynamic Debt. As a prophecy of a "decline and fall of the U.S. empire," As We Go Marching will appeal to all devotees of orthodox finance. Many a hopeful liberal, however, will wonder why Investigator Flynn did not look into the experience of Baldwin's Britain and the various Scandinavian successes in using the debt "dynamically," yet within safe limitations...