Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Propagandists and politicians may possibly carry us into this war and into the ten succeeding wars in Europe. But at length Americans will have to come home and dedicate themselves to their creative obligations. So it would seem the better part of wisdom for us to assume our obvious task now than to come to it later, sickened, disillusioned, and bankrupted by another war 'for democracy,' 'for free enterprise,' or for any other slogan that may be invented for us by the war makers. Let us stand fast, therefore, by our American heritage, equip ourselves by hard work to improve...
...right to live constitutes a claim of fundamental nature. The right to live includes the right to the soil, which alone gives life. For this claim peoples have even fought when a lack of wisdom threatened to interfere with their relationship, for they knew that even bloody sacrifices are better than the gradual dying off of nations. National unity was our first demand. Piece by piece and move by move this was realized...
...Yale students. Amused, they copied Madden's scrawly rebuke, showed it to their friends. Madden became a "character." His joint was on the map for Yalemen, Park Avenue debs, Long Island's polo crowd. Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly...
Senator-Bishop Bunker, 5 ft. 10 in., stocky, with dark wavy hair, heavy eyebrows, Clark Gable ears and a hairline mustache, is dapper, earnest, no isolationist. Like the late Brigham Young, he loves to dance.* He observes the Word of Wisdom (no tobacco, tea, coffee or strong drink), chews hundreds of sticks of gum annually; as a bishop he marries, buries, and manages church affairs without remuneration. High-school educated, the son of pioneer ranchers, he entered politics four years ago as a Young Democrat, topped the ticket in 1938 in a race for the Legislature, became Speaker...
When Lindbergh speaks he does so with the understanding, wisdom and foresight of a Lincoln...