Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...express my entire devotion to the leadership of Mr. Baldwin. During the last four years the man has grown in wisdom, in stature, in power, and in ideas and ideals until he has become one of the greatest leaders the Conservative Party has ever known...
Last week King Alexander was in Jugoslavia; Dentist Smith in France. Court Dentist Kostich performed an operation on King Alexander's wisdom tooth. King Alexander, therefore, postponed consultations on his kingdom's political situation, which, as everyone knows, is perilous as a result of the assassination of the late famed Croat-leader Stefan Raditch (TIME...
Such a thesis, if tediously expounded a la Bolshevik, might indeed cause hurtful boredom. But as the smart and sprightly Count spurs across Europe, tilting at Nationalisms, he conjures much novelty and wisdom from successive countries with the talisman of sly philosophy. And his spurs, as a gentleman's should, wound not half so often as they stimulate...
...chef was the Rev. John Roach Straton, blatant Manhattan pulpiteer, who characterized Governor Smith, last fortnight, as "the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom." Challenged to debate the charge in his own Calvary Baptist Church (TIME, Aug. 20), Pulpiteer Straton weasled, tried to shift the scene to local amphitheatres. But Nominee Smith declined to make a public show. He wrote: "The answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would...
...During the last presidential campaign the Republican managers were partially successful in leading the American people to believe that these sins should be charged against the individual rather than against the party. The question of personal guilt has now been thoroughly disposed of and in its place, challenging the wisdom and good judgment of the American people, is the unquestioned evidence of party guilt...