Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass writing by "established writers." One such established writer is Professor James (The Struggle for The World) Burnham of New York University. His first screen play is being "developed by Mr. Burnham and the editorial staff" of the Workshop, with the help of what Sterling North calls the "collective wisdom of the American people...
...commander in chief is filled with wisdom. Airplanes are of no account...
...horse & buggy creaked along, the driver turned to the man in the odd little cape and asked: "You a traveling salesman?" The stranger nodded agreeably, but said nothing. The driver tried again: "What do you sell?" This time his passenger smiled. "Wit and wisdom" he said. After a shocked silence, the driver protested: "I've never seen a traveling salesman yet who wouldn't show me his wares...
...driver. For more than six decades he had displayed them to countless scholars and students, and not all of them were quite sure of what they saw. Nevertheless, Whitehead's wares had a wonderful reputation. On a platform and in his parlor, Whitehead's wit and wisdom were displayed most effectively. And when he put his style to it, he could write with crystalline clarity and poetic insight. But "getting me from my books," he once observed, "is not so much dangerous as unlikely...
...been promised a return bout with Champion Williams, but last week Bob Montgomery thought better of it. At 28 he hung up his boxing gloves-for good, he said. He added, with candor and wisdom: "There's been too many rotten fights the past few months and I've never been connected with any stink in the boxing game. My timing's off, my punches go wild too often and it's time I quit...