Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder, with such a large and subtle character to draw, that the studio hired a gifted novelist, Christopher Isherwood, to write the script for this picture. No wonder that expense was damned in the effort to make settings splendid and costumes rich, and all authentic to the period in the least detail. By all that literary art and cinematic craft could do, the way was prepared for the heroine of history, and suddenly, in a sputter of high heels and a clatter of false eyelashes, she arrives on the scene-the most cultivated woman of the French Renaissance: Lana Turner...
...Darling-I'm-So-Glad-I-Waited lassie? Waugh's implication (that men are much too dumb to know if a girl has waited or not) is the only trace of cynicism in a book that is filled to overflowing with a sense of boneless wonder...
Blue-Eyed Giant. Sorge, under cover of being a Nazi journalist in Japan, operated a fabulously successful spy ring during more than seven critical years until his detection in 1941. With the accent of wonder which belongs to those who have been involved in a frightful event without understanding it, Hans-Otto Meissner, a German embassy attache in Tokyo until he was called to war duty, details Sorge's coups for Communism. Sorge and his accomplices told the Russians: ¶That Japan had rejected a German proposal for an alliance against the U.S.S.R. and Great Britain, which edged Russia...
Buried underground, the U.S. has as much "conventional" ammunition as World War II armies fired in Europe. That is quite a stockpile; so Defense Secretary Wilson last week announced that conventional arms orders are being reduced in favor of emphasis on the wonder weapons of the future. To rush work on them, Wilson said he would ask Congress in January for an additional $1 billion-a hike in defense spending from $34.5 billion in the fiscal year 1956, ending June 30, to $35.5 billion in fiscal...
...keystone of the marital arch. Suavely twirling his waxy mustache, Cinemactor Menjou advised: "If men would pay more attention to appearances, there would be fewer divorces. When a man goes around in a baggy, ill-fitting suit, looking something like a fugitive from the Bowery, it's no wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints for husbands: 1) take an hour to dress, 2) always wear suspenders, 3) in public be gartered, 4) flash at least half an inch of cuff below jacket sleeves...