Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite believe what seemed to be happening in their $500,000,000 industry. They looked around for hidden villains, seemed to think price-cutting the cause of their troubles rather than the result. Said the Fur Trade Review: "We cannot help but wonder whether [stores] have exercised the best wisdom in cutting prices...
...show had the best of intentions: "To bring listeners the wisdom and beauty of the Bible in dramatic, exciting form." But Chapter I of Katharine Seymour's eleven episodes about Adam & Eve was more soap opera than Scripture. Excerpts: "As the years passed, Adam & Eve [played by Phil Clarke, 43, and Eleanor Phelps, 30-odd, in their best Sunday voices], haunted always by memories of the paradise they had lost, struggled to build a new life for themselves and their children. ... It is an afternoon in early summer. . . . Eve, preparing the evening meal . . . looks up eagerly as her husband...
...believing. People have mutually confirmed one another in the notion that by the aid of the upshot of Christ's life and the 1,800 years (the consequences) they have become acquainted with the answer to the problem. By degrees, as this came to be accounted wisdom, all pith and vigor was distilled out of Christianity, the tension of the paradox was relaxed, one became a Christian without noticing it. ... What one especially praises in Christ is precisely what one would be most embittered by if one were contemporary with it. ... Christendom has done away with Christianity without being...
Juvenile Jury (Sun. 1:30 p.m., Mutual). A procession of wit and wisdom out of the mouths of babes...
...bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...