Word: wondrousness
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...Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel was much more than that. It was a wondrous, moldering accretion of legend left behind by countless wits, wags, actors, playwrights, novelists and zanies. It was the Wayward Inn of a man named Frank Case...
...trays on the way out. With rare insight into the psychology of hunger, the Union management has arranged for trays to be dumped under the noses of incoming lines, and the gradually growing piles of half-consumed food made slushy by left-over gravy is a pre-meal feature wondrous to behold...
James refused to draw any large conclusions about what this would mean for the U.S. and the world in the future. Wrote he: "When an ancient treasure of precious vessels, overscored with glowing gems and wrought, artistically, into wondrous shapes, has, by a prodigious process, been converted, through a vast community, into the small change, the simple circulating medium of dollars and 'nickels,' we can only say that the consequent permeation will be of values of anew order. Of what order we must wait...
...price controls, the House of Representatives has pasted together another patchwork quilt of economic irrationalities and short-sighted solutions. Business and farm groups envision a speculator's paradise in which they will make a quick, sure killing; the amended Price Control Act is the result of their wondrous wishful thinking. The inflation that may soon follow would be tragic for most Americans, the large majority of whom favor blanket renewal of the OPA for another year. With elections approaching, Congress is gambling-but national inflation is hardly worth the risk...
This yarn of all weathers-in which Shakespeare brought "dead" queens back to life, gave Bohemia a seacoast and tossed the wondrous stage direction, "Exit, pursued by a bear"-is not often, or easily, produced. Last week it got a fairly good production, turned out to be a fairly lively evening. If the hey-nonny-nonny sometimes breathed a desperate gaiety, most of the melodrama was pretty sound theater. And there were snatches of much-loved poetry (Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. . .). Most Shakespearean in reciting his lines (though...