Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...
...Coolidge. Three weeks ago, a Republican committee at Cheyenne, Wyo., adopted a resolution setting forth that Calvin Coolidge had advanced the U. S. materially, intellectually, morally; that he had been "a factor for good" internationally; that his wisdom and beneficence should not be interrupted and that, therefore, Calvin Coolidge was requested "to waive his personal preference and consent to continue...
Neither, Mr. Huddleston wished to make plain, was he. "It may be a very good thing that our law be changed," he remarked sarcastically, "so that Cabinet officials may contribute something to the wisdom of the matter under discussion as well as their handsome appearance...
...stood there in his white and gold lace, with his air of fine and simple dignity that there had never been an arrival more momentous-never anyone on whom more conflicting emotions were centered, hopes and doubts and fears, but above all confidence in his personal integrity and wisdom. . . . While I made my curtsy, it was all I could...
...wisdom would be in its sheer temerity; in its novelty for a time that is used to novelty; and in the directness with which it would strike to the heart of such issue as there is between the two parties this year. When Prohibition, Religion, Corruption and Party Feeling have been talked to nothing, there still remains Prosperity, which is what the status quo is still generally thought to be. Offering to replace the present administration the Democrats will have to offer some one to replace not merely President Coolidge, but the Secretary of the Treasury. Should Governor Smith...