Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vision of the world, and all the wonder that would...
...Governor, Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 35, is the boy wonder of Georgia politics. Short (5 ft. 6), stocky (190 Ib.) pear-shaped, a great joiner and organizer, he got the urge for politicking from a grandfather in the Alabama Legislature. As a twelve-year-old, he worked as page boy in the Alabama House; less than 13 years later, he was a full-fledged member of Georgia's Legislature...
...Ellis Arnall is now Georgia's boy hope as well as its boy wonder. He has promised to end the Talmadge-fostered laws which give Georgia a one-man Government, has promised to restore the university system to accredited lists. And when he was assured of election last week he made a statement which warmed his voters' hearts: "I now call on all Georgians regardless of political affiliation, to help us in our endeavor, so that Georgia may no longer be the laughing stock of the nation...
Some readers may wonder whether Abner's conduct can properly be described as The Sound of an American. World-Telegram Reviewer Harry Hansen said that the book "pounds home that you can't write a decent novel when you are trying to outdo your competitors in vulgarity. The only sound of an American that I could discern . . . was the razzberry...
Listeners to Soprano Lawrence's broadcast last Sunday could form no final conclusions from the simple, light program she sang (Richard Strauss's Devotion, Annie Laurie, Waltzing Mathilda), but were reassured to find her voice apparently as good as ever. Friends might wonder if she would ever again mount an opera stage, much less a horse, but no such doubts assailed Marjorie Lawrence. Said she, proudly: "I can now walk across the room! Before the winter is over, I'll be back at the Metropolitan...