Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many persons acclaimed the sending of Mr. Morrow to live with Mr. Tomorrow as a stroke of extrapolitical good fortune and wisdom. One close student of U. S. govern-ment ventured to speculate on the possible future effects of the stroke...
...experiences. Like Judith Earle she has come early to an artist's isolation, her past has already made the "one great circle." Then to the question "What next?" her book is the answer-dusty like an insect's wings with a curious bright bloom of sudden wisdom and golden wonder. The Author. Author Lehmann is the daughter of English R. C. Lehmann, famed oarsman, noted writer, member of the staff of Punch; she is a cousin of Owen Davis, famed U. S. playwright. Bred in Bourne End, England, she studied at Cambridge, published one poem in a magazine...
...daily, and I sent them a statement reading: "I do not choose to write for the CRIMSON in 1927." That of course, cleared everything up and yesterday morning I read in the CRIMSON--the man across the hall overslept that Joe Forecast was again to contribute weekly wisps of wisdom to its readers. Knowing there was only one Joe, unless you count Joe, Jr.--but that is another story--I went post haste to the imposing edifice on Plympton Street to investigate. A heated colloquy with the genial President followed. I finally agreed not to disappoint my public, in return...
...been made that the decrease is the result of that university's ban on automobiles. The New Student quotes President Little of Michigan as replying, if the decrease were due to the automobile regulation he was glad of it. Presumably his satisfaction arises more from confidence in the wisdom of the rule than from pleasure in its apparent result...
...wise son," says the proverb, "that knoweth his own father"; it often takes a parent of even greater wisdom to recognize his progeny...