Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room is okay at the Hanover Inn, and the first thing we decide to do is go over and see the boys at the Daily Dartmouth. This is a tricky moment, and I wonder when they grab us right off, how we going to let our friends at Harvard know we are prisoners, so they can come rescue...
Singing is her only love. "I have no beau." Susie sighs. "Men are wonder full but they always run the other way." One of the songs the successful vocalist sings these days is an old melancholy lament, 'I'm sad and I'm Lonely...
...unfashionable political creed, and especially Communism, would be unheard of by the conservative moguls who feed the public their weekly escape from life. So when Witness Menjou proudly declares that he prevented quantities of "sly, subtle, class-struggle propaganda" from sneaking into films, one can only wonder whether their almost total absence stems from his efforts...
False Security. I've been much puzzled to know why it is that the Soviet Government have taken this violently aggressive line. From an external point of view it seems so foolish, and we wonder what is the real motive behind it. I cannot, myself, believe that it is the prelude to war. These 14 men in the Kremlin, who rule with despotic power the vast populations and territories of which they are the masters, are very capable and well informed. If their minds were set on war I cannot believe that they would not lull the easygoing democracies...
...hits which the team produced (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary). As the first-night crowd, fully as conscious of its looks as an Agnes de Mille ballet, jostled into the theater, the faintly malicious question in almost everybody's mind was: Would the wonder boys do it again...