Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder Reader Logan was confused; so was TIME, which herewith apologizes to the Chrysler Corp. for inadvertently rouging its already healthy complexion. The declared dividend of $4 reported by TIME covered a nine-month, not a semiannual, period. If Chrysler's fourth quarter dividend is the same as its last two quarterly declarations, its stock (at current levels) will have yielded about 1% for the year...
...these days of tension ... we must all stand together . . . fulfill our obligations to the nation, regardless of political or partisan considerations," Franklin Roosevelt wrote last week, canceling a political engagement and making Republicans wonder how far non-political national unity is expected...
...made an apology, its second in the week for British pilots who apparently had lost their way. (In the earlier instance the apology was for a pilot who dropped a bomb on an apartment in Esbjerg, Denmark, apparently during the raid on Brunsbüttel.) Neutral observers began to wonder whether the navigation training of British airmen, confined to the narrow limits of the British Isles, had been adequate...
...inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start a fire that burns as brightly as did the conflagration in In Old Chicago. Most cinemaddicts will wonder why, having carried this chain of horror so far, Producer Zanuck failed to find a pretext to recall The Hurricane...
...Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied a pasture pastoral like Curry's bully Ajax. Others who sometimes wonder why Grant Wood indulges in such painstakingly stuffy satire as Honorary Degree (see cut) could admire his slick Seedtime and Harvest. Subtler was the humor of whimsical Doris Lee, who in her Winter in the Catskills successfully unrolled a cosmic panorama of mountain as a backdrop for a skater...