Word: sager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with...
Most Britons, as Lord Byron once put it, "till by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by a wager." Some have even been known to back their wagers by some sage manipulation, like doping a horse or marking cards...
Other scorers were Brynteson 8, Ham 4, Reifsnyder 2, and Goldsmith 2. Also in the Crimson lineup were: Crosby, Sager, Dailey, Kobush, Mobraaten, Belcher, and Altrocchi...
There seems to be a tendency still to quote Washington in behalf of isolation. How about the remark of reputedly sager and more worldly-wise of the founding fathers...