Word: sagely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often does Dallas see a premiere, let alone one by the Sage of Adelphi Terrace, whose U.S. representatives, the Theatre Guild, had sanctioned the performance. Nevertheless, Dallas' critical fraternity rose magnificently to the occasion. Observed Critic John Rosenfield Jr. of the Morning News...
Nicknamed by newspapers "The Sage of Potato Hill," and the "Kansas Diogenes," Ed Howe was not, as such titles suggested, a small-town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary...
...Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester, N. Y. and New York City, reprinting old prose and poetry on which the copyright had run out. About that time he was also touring the U. S. as X. La Motte Sage, giving exhibitions of hypnotism. This led to The Philosophy of Personal Influence, distributed by mail from Rochester, which offered courses in hypnotism, and earned him & associates $1,500,000 before postal inspectors, suspecting fraud, forced the "New York Institute of Science" to quit. Another Rochester enterprise called the New York...
Green at his job of Finance Minister is plump, owlish Dr. H. H. Kung. Last week he buckled to the task of trying to balance China's budget with a sternness remindful of his great ancestor, China's uncompromising sage Confucius...
...Finance Minister and was to be known favorably in every chancellery in the world as T. V. Soong. Thus the tentacles of a single family linked China's late, sainted First President and her living Conqueror, and her greatest Finance Minister and the 75th descendant of her foremost sage...