Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wendell Willkie has been nominated. . . . I do not know Mr. Willkie, but the headline in one of the metropolitan papers yesterday said: 'Willkie aims at unity, defense and recovery.' ... In heaven's name, will anyone aim at anything else? Sometimes I wonder whether we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something...
Collapse. All of them-delegates, newsmen, wise guys-understood politics thoroughly. The question was: Did they understand a political movement? They shied off like wise guys, sneering: "Willkie, the Nine-Minute Wonder," "Hopson's Choice." They gave themselves comforting reasons for his upsurge-Eastern seaboard hysteria, Wall Street propaganda, utilities propaganda-explained away the galleryites as paid Wall Street stooges, explained away the telegrams by knowing references to utility tactics in fighting the Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company...
Basic reasons: new alloy steels, vast technical advancement in construction and bridge theory (John Roebling did not even know the theory when he built his World Wonder). A big factor in modern bridge masterpieces is one Engineer John Roebling never heard about: the professional bridge designer and architect. To him must go substantial credit for creating modern bridges which begin to approach in delicate, aerial appearance what bridges have always stood for in men's imagination...
Last evening I was sitting outdoors shelling peas, looking over the hedge into my neighbor's garden of prize roses when an Army plane roared overhead and I thought, I wonder what it would look like around here if that pilot planted a bomb right in the middle of that garden. . . Such thoughts are my constant companion and I feel sure that I am like wives and mothers all over the nation. Why is it, we wonder, that we are allowed to continue to go about the homely tasks: cooking the cereal, wiping the baby's nose, cleaning...
...haired U. S. and English stage favorite of the '705 and '80s; at Court Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire, England. Her persuasive charm, plus her talent, enchanted audiences. When she made her debut at 16 (as Juliet, at Macauley's Theatre, Louisville, Ky.), critics described her as "a wonder of awkwardness" with "a glimmer of promise." She retired when she was 30, at the height of her career...