Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisdom & Poison. Nudging these working newsmen for space were big-name specialists, with varying claims to international wisdom: Westbrook Pegler, George Fielding Eliot, Ludwig Bemelmans, Drew Pearson, Ely Culbertson, Orson Welles. Mixed in were avowed propagandists, ranging from Edgar Ansel Mowrer (who was pleased to call the conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross...
Which is about what the reader does-seeing that nothing is settled, but a good deal of wit and sly wisdom have been released. The 23 pages are good latter-day Frost: the ruminative philosophic wit whose pentameters are salted with gentle satire and unobtrusive learning...
...state legislatures took a hand in place-naming they usually gave free rein to the politician's love of rolling syllables (Maine is the only one-syllable state name in the Union). With profound respect for a great democrat, Congress named three tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy - only to find the people of the region stubbornly continuing to call them what they always had: Willow Creek, Big Hole and Stinking Water...
...enter Heidelberg as victor, and all you found were people with smiling faces and open arms. . . . We despise the hypocritical holier-than-thou attitude of the National Socialists and did not flee with them. At the same time we do not beg your favor. . . . Give us peace, based on wisdom, and you will receive our admiration...
...There is no country today which seeks to make a peace according to the desire and wisdom of the Christ-God. We are in for a peace of expediency. . . . That may be the best peace we can get, since all the nations are pagan; but at least we ought to be honest enough to admit that such a peace is contrary to the will...