Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Unjaded. In Australia, before John Curtin became Prime Minister last year, his people used to call him "Jaded Jack." Behind his gold spectacles and his mild, professorial mug he was meek enough. His best friends said that for all his wondrous vocabulary, his skill at political infighting, his long labors for Australian labor, he lacked the guts and drive of a first-class leader. He was to Australian politics what William Edgar Borah, the late Thaddeus H. Caraway and other Senate gadflies were to the U.S.: a born oppositionist who talked a great government, but seemed to shy from...
...reminiscing Welshman's boyhood self (Huw Morgan) is played on the screen by a thirteen-year-old English boy named Roddy McDowall,* veteran of some 20 British films. His part-the wondrous day-by-day experiences that slowly make a boy a man-had to be played right to make the picture go. Thanks to his own considerable talent and the wise direction of John Ford...
...loped around the bases amid a deafening roar, the 26-year-old Yankee Clipper left in his wake the broken fragments of one of baseball's immortal records. Di Maggio had just hit safely in his 45th successive game, bettering the fabulous string of 44 spun by wondrous Wee Willie Keeler (who "hit 'em where they ain't") 44 years...
...least $130,000,000, was a shy, quiet boy who studied earnestly, liked to ride, play golf, read detective stories. Yale gave Edward Harkness an interest in Egyptology, art and Shakespeare, a few great & good friends, certain loyalties to friends and college that were to shape a wondrous philanthropy...
...Hear from and (barring miracles) vote more money to the Dies Committee, whose Red-finding Chairman Martin Dies last week was in a knockdown fight with minority committeemen. Issue: whether to include Franklin Roosevelt in the committee's wondrous list of Communist tools...