Word: sagely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sage of San Simcon has a new ace up his sleeve. Not content with prattling against internationalism, he is now devoting his attention to the eradication of college Communism, which, he proclaims, is growing rapidly through the subversive teachings of bearded professors...
...Steel Corp.), Myron Charles Taylor, LL. D. (also lent by U. S. Steel Corp.), Nicholas Murray Butler, D. C. L., LL. D. (lent by the Archaeological Biographical Society of New York), Walter Sherman Gifford (lent by American Telephone & Telegraph Co.), Eugene Grace (lent by Bethlehem Steel Corp.), Dr. Dean Sage (lent by the Presbyterian Hospital). Other Salisbury sitters: Benito Mussolini, William Thompson Dewart (New York...
...than the world's champion himself, Max Baer in person, was paying Harvard a visit off the record. Dressed conservatively in a double-breasted gray suit, with coal black hair combed smoothly down, he blew in about 4.30 o'clock to give Coach Lamar's varsity mittmen a few sage words of advice...
...contemporary of John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Russell Sage, John Andrus made his first dollar selling a mess of fresh-caught trout to Horace Greeley, who, angling near the Andrus farm in Pleasantville, N. Y., feared to return empty handed to the editorial offices of the New York Tribune. Like most of the shrewd men who reaped richly from the U. S. industrial expansion of the 19th Century, Andrus did not hotfoot for the front in the Civil War. He caught pneumonia drilling in the rain at Hartford, Conn., was promptly discharged from the Army...
...inaccurate popularization. Mr. Wilson has obviously made copious use of the original sources and from them he has achieved an excellent picture of his subject. Although one gets a bit tired of hearing the hero referred to as "The Virginian" or Merne, and Thomas Jefferson as the "Sage of Albermarle" the writing is of the calibre which holds the reader's interest and makes the pages turn easily. Occasionally the style becomes a trifle plain and slow, but undoubtedly this will give place to a more easy flow as further books take their place in the high rank to which...