Word: wondrous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manual work on any of the works on exhibition. His genius was in his head and active enough to keep 700 artisans, mostly Finns, busy in his St. Petersburg workrooms. The imperial court was not Fabergé's only customer: every millionaire in Russia clamored for his wondrous candlesticks and parasol handles. In time he produced enameled pigs for the court of King Chulalongkorn of Siam, Buddhas and bowls for his son, Rama VI, and a gold cigarette case which was presented to England's Queen Mary by the Maharaja of Bikanir. But his most ambitious work...
...Berkleys of Broadway. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers still make a wondrous dance team (TIME, April...
...Beware again the false prophets; for there dwelloth in the land an old soothsayer in the place of the Meric, and his name is called Bill and he is of the Shea's; and he is wondrous glib with his tongue unto the hour of Post Time...
...Wondrous Pill. Implicit in the Administration plan was an admission that the Government's present parity program was getting out of hand. It used to be a way of guaranteeing the farmer the purchasing power he had during the good years 1910-14; it was a lot more generous than that now, and infinitely more complicated. The Administration proposed to continue buying storable crops like wheat, corn and tobacco, to keep their prices up. But for perishables, such as meat, poultry, milk, vegetables-75% of the yearly farm output-the Government had something new to offer. It would...
...Calvin Coolidge twice vetoed it; Henry Wallace bought the farmer and got away with it. Secretary Brannan's program was an even higher bid for the U.S. farmer's favor than any Henry had thought up. Said the New York Times's Arthur Krock: ". . . no more wondrous pill was ever compounded in the pharmacy of politics." The National Farmers Union, itself an expert concocter of pills, thought the Brannan plan was really wonderful, hailed it as a "milestone." The powerful American Farm Bureau Federation thought it sounded pretty revolutionary...