Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late fantastic T. E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) once observed: "The invention of bully-beef has modified land-war more profoundly than the invention of gunpowder . . . because . . . range is more to strategy than force...
...National Emergency, approve of SEC's closing the Exchanges? Clamor for such a step grew noisier. The Wall Street Journal chided the clamorers, editorialized: "The Securities and Exchange Commission and the authorities of the New York Stock Exchange are to be congratulated upon their refusal to interfere. . . . The wisdom of this policy is demonstrated by the fact that there has been an actual market throughout the entire decline, with no more than one or two cases where for a very few minutes dealings were suspended to enable an orderly meeting of demand with supply...
Charles Linza McNary. Slim, weary-faced, 65, the great Republican strategist is Oregon's Senator McNary, serpent-wise in politics, beloved of U. S. farmers and of connoisseurs of political wisdom. Wanting no higher office, liberal Leader McNary 'would satisfy more than Republican voters; in fact, is one of the few G. O. Possibilities whose nomination would automatically attract otherwise safely Democratic votes...
...Those who are sly try to slink behind honor, calling on wisdom to fight for deceit...
...most distinguished of her former lovers, discovers that whether hardened, dried or dimmed with age they all look at her in the same way. The stabbing malice with which Novelist Elizabeth portrays these gentlemen, the skill with which she leads fragile Fanny to put away vanity and resort to wisdom, her airy invention of incident put Mr. Skeffington in the class of favorite novels for women. Few readers will lay it down until Mr. Skeffington is finally laid - and the meaning of his first name incidentally unfolded...