Word: sagest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter from Holcombe Ward, chairman of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee, urging Frankie Parker not to give up school. Said Committeeman Ward: "It seems to me that a good education will be of benefit to you throughout life. . . ." It reached a climax with Mercer Beasley's sagest contribution to the uproar: "Frankie's got a swelled head. I tried to make him use the circle swingback but he wouldn't listen to me. . . ." It approached solution when it became Frankie Parker's turn to serve again and he pompously announced: "I'm going...
...beside his ears, then suddenly cut loose with both hands, wide open. Coldly, Petrolle stabbed him with trip-hammer rights, straight lefts, and backed away. Crouching again, Battalino sprang after him, savagely knocked Petrolle down with another torrent of blows. Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters. He knelt till the count of nine, stalled for more time by wiping the resin off his gloves on the referee's shirt. Then, steadied, he resumed his fearful slashing of Battalino's face for ten rounds, stabbing precisely, murderously, at length wearily. Again the ring canvas...
...were the Hearstpapers whose big-nosed publisher, predicting that Herbert Hoover could be elected President of any country but the U. S., declared "here and now for Calvin Coolidge for the next President of the U. S." Led as always by the great internationally- minded House of Morgan, the sagest bankers and economists of the land had long and quietly been pressing just some such scheme upon the White House only to be turned off with the excuse that the country would not stand for it. That President Hoover's plan received such popular approval perhaps surprised...