Word: wonderingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic old pros looked back in wonder last week to try to figure how Jack Kennedy did it. Chief reason was the band of young pros around him. Key men among them: Robert Francis Kennedy, 34. Hard-driving Bobby graduated from Harvard ('48), played varsity end, dallied briefly with journalism as Palestine war correspondent for the Boston Post before entering the University of Virginia law school ('51). He managed Jack's Senate campaign in 1952, then joined Senator Joe McCarthy's investigations subcommittee and feuded constantly with equally quick-tempered Chief Counsel Roy Cohn. Appointed counsel...
...lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party's dinner-jacketed one-upmanship likely to delude the young. The wonder is, Twentieth Century Parody suggests, that there has been so much style in the last 60 years to be worth parodying...
Msgr. De Blanc has certainly embarrassed the members of the Catholic Church with his statement ". . . but I wonder if a devout person should bring someone of another faith into his home, into his family surroundings." How can we hope to spread our faith (a command of Jesus Christ) if we cannot show our non-Catholic friends how we live and how we behave in our homes...
...Prince Philip was less than impressed by the master's protean efforts. Many newshounds, trailing Philip as he inspected the paintings and other works, distinctly heard him snicker on occasion. Beyond that, accounts varied. The London Daily Herald was certain that Philip had muttered: "I sometimes wonder if the customers understand...
Sitzfleisch & Fen. Inevitably, the book has faults. The authors might have been more critical of some sources and more revealing in etymology. For instance, no attempt is made to trace the origin of that wonder word "viggerish." There are other omissions; how did they ever miss such expressions as on the q.t., go pound sand (meaning "The hell with you, bub"), sitzfleisch (perseverance), penobscot (falsie), fen (well known to every boy who ever played marbles), screech (rotgut), or that masterpiece of imaginative profanity, the blivit (a term of personal description usually defined...