Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Philadelphia's palatial Museum of Art was built a few years later, Philadelphians began to wonder whether its empty spaces might not constitute a "situation" extraordinary enough to warrant moving Lawyer Johnson's art. The trustees finally decided it needed the museum's fireproof housing...
...Most startling of all, Premier Tojo's ostensibly fire-eating Army Government called for an extraordinary session of the Diet in mid-November-its first such session since 1937. All this scarcely sounded as if fire-eating Premier Tojo were going to start right off chewing flames. Small wonder that Tokyo's Hochi, supposedly Nazi-controlled, declared that Premier Tojo's opening address "fell short of expectations and turned out rather commonplace." Army & Diet. For ten years Japan's military extremists, recently egged on by their Nazi friends, had agitated for totalitarianism. By September...
...foreword, Critic Wilson states his belief that The Last Tycoon is Fitzgerald's "most mature" work, that Hero Monroe Stahr was the most thoroughly explored of all Fitzgerald characters. Stahr was an executive and creative genius of motion pictures, a "boy wonder" at 22, later boss and three-quarters owner of a big studio. Under him the movies reached a sort of golden age. After him the industry grew too complicated for one man to keep his hand on everything in a studio. Stahr "had flown up very high to see, on strong wings, when he was young...
What would Stalin do? Long ago he had made his decision: keep on fighting. Conditions in Russia? The technical experts were amazed to the point of wonder. Example: the U.S. and British Red Cross delegations, which accompanied the mission, went through Moscow hospitals, reported that the Russian equipment was not only as good as anything anywhere in the world, but that in some instances no nation anywhere could match their stuff (equipment for blood transfusions and for serums...
...alone was guiding Germany over a tight-rope of political uncertainty when any slip would mean a fall disastrous to his regime. His overwhelming victory was a personal rather than a national triumph, and the psychological tactics he used are recorded in "My New Order" for the post facto wonder of those interested in his peculiar strength...