Word: sapiently
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...paraphrase the sapient words of the immortal bard, there will be cakes and ale, wagering and other sports after Senators Kefauver and Tobey have returned to the hills of Tennessee and New Hampshire from whence, as the Bible says, cometh our help. Wise reformers don't give too many cathartics. A few more doses of Senator Tobey and the town will be thirsty for another Jimmy Walker...
...went to Harvard, worked on the Boston Transcript, served in France during World War I. After a year on the New York Tribune, he tried advertising, became one of the Satevepost's most skillful authors. In his Satevepost days Mar quand created the character of Mr. Moto, a sapient Japanese detective. After Pearl Harbor Marquand interned Mr. Moto. Said Marquand: "I rather liked him . . . but now it seems I had him all wrong. A veritable wolf in sheep's clothing...
...William Allen White remains one of the country's most sapient reporters, with a special knack for observations which others have felt but never quite got down in Will White's bumblebee prose. Fortnight ago Editor White, back home from a trip to Washington and New York, stuck his stubby legs under his rolltop desk in the Emporia Gazette office and dictated three editorials. Once again, Editor White came up with much that was simple, clear and knowing...
Tatum never meant to be a professional basketball player. But Abe Saperstein, the sapient impresario of the Globe Trotters, happened to see him playing first base with Cincinnati's Negro American League Ethiopian Clowns last summer. Last week Tatum's extensible equipment was helping the Globe Trotters to be one of the most successful professional basketball teams...
Florence Horn is a small, sapient Connecticut Yankee quietly outraged by the U. S. citizen who places Manila in Cuba. Late in 1939 she took her journalistic acumen and a social conscience to the little-known Commonwealth of the Philippines, within three months turned the polyglot, 7,091-isle archipelago inside out gathering research for a FORTUNE article. Orphans of the Pacific is the byproduct...