Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federal government so that it can continue the excellent work for which it was originally created, the very fact that a huge museum is being constructed at a tremendous cost just a few blocks away from it, will provide ample justification for a weakened belief in the efficiency and wisdom of a democratic government...
...Novelist Lewis' great gallery of flops. Two years ago the last of these, The Prodigal Parents, took a beating even from reviewers who recognized Lewis as still the most important novelist in the U. S. It was a wayward, shallow, cantankerous mummery in which Lewis exalted the wisdom of a motor dealer at the expense of his stupidly pinko kids...
...handsome, athletic Henry Wisdom ("Tex") Roden, who took over as president when Founder Clapp sold out, this growth was a triumph. Despite the competition of big firms such as H. J. Heinz Co., Beechnut, Libby, McNeill & Libby, Inc., his firm claims 25% of the industry's yearly $15,000,000 gross business, runs a dead heat with Heinz for first place. Some 35% of U. S. babies feed on prepared baby food. Fields as yet untapped (aside from the rest of the infants) are the stomach ailment trade and oldsters who may need a strained food line of their...
...from "Wisdom from Wilhelm," an editorial in the same issue...
...expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work out of his dilemma on his own. Result: by deftly making youth's callow crisis also a crisis...