Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rousing speech before 2,000 New York postal employees (prohibited by law from playing politics), Postmaster Hannegan made what amounted to an official announcement that Harry Truman will be a candidate next year. He piled up his eulogies like a convention keynoter: "Granite courage . . . level-headed wisdom . . . integrity and high statesmanship." Carefully omitting any reference to F.D.R. and the New Deal, he laid down the new Democratic line: "We are on our way towards peace and prosperity because of the leadership of Harry Truman. . . . The people of America have learned that Harry Truman wears well...
...Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom" by Robert Ulich, professor of Education, has been planned for March publication...
...trousers fixed. When I asked a Russian friend about this, he said: 'It must have made him feel right at home.' The 'shake' is not unknown in Moscow, as most foreigners find out. I can compliment Mr. Poltoratsky's wisdom in buying a pair of trousers in New York. The Russians turn out millions of pairs a year, but their bottoms all have a tendency to bell out, like the ones Harold Teen used to wear, and still does, for all I know...
...Vogue's readers, Martha Krock, onetime society reporter, now the wife of New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, divulged the distilled wisdom of a veteran Washington hostess. The advice: "Don't give cocktail parties . . . . Of all things dedicated to spoil the evening to come, the cocktail party ranks first." But if you must, "don't serve those awful little monsters known as canapées," and avoid mobs...
...college population bulged to 2,000,000 (double that of 1936) without assuring any comparable multiplication of national wisdom. Patients in U.S. mental hospitals also reached 600,000 as against 516,000 ten years ago. In the U.S. divorces were one-third as frequent as marriages; in Egypt, nearly half...