Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nickname-The White Elephant-was one of awe, and had none of the Occidental connotations of that phrase. It referred to his size; his exceptionally fair and aristocratic complexion, accented in its whiteness by his hair, black and shiny as a phonograph record; and his appearance of strength and wisdom...
Variously called Lama Tanchu, or Lama Dhondup, or Ehrlingh ("Divine Child"), the new Dalai Lama last fortnight took his official name: Jampel Ngag-Wang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyamtso, deriving from the names of earlier Dalai Lamas and meaning "Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine, Ocean-Wide." To most Tibetans he will be known, like his predecessors, as Gyamtso Rimpoche ("Glorious King"). So glorious is he supposed to be, in fact, that the monks of his palace-fortress, the Potala, will do a thriving business selling barley pills containing his excreta-a specific...
...brot about Bartlett rescue expedition to Greenland) but he is one of our best stylists as writer and speaker, said Worcester Gazette re his long address opening famous Clark University Oriental Conference of statesmen and sinologues. Without style no writer can reach fame and indeed no statesman reach wisdom: for imagination and extemporaneous ability enter essentially here. Hence the disastrous falldown in policies since Apl 15, 1911 when Thomsin first presented his plan in "Nouvelle Revue Paris" and in his book "The Chinese" London 1910. His biog. in W. W. in U.S.: N.].: East: Authors: Canada: Internat'l London...
...with chin at an optimistic angle I invite (yea, plead) fan mail. I understand wisdom rules at your school and you all go around wrinkling your cortexes over weighty problems for the good of posterity. Well, at this school (Texas State College for Women, largest girl's school on this globe) the eyelash curler rules and we, all go around fluttering flirtatious furbelows at susceptible Profs. I hear you men all have jaw-breaking vocabularies. Well, we can polish the old apple to perfection--so maybe that makes us even. On the whole, I'll wager Harvard brushes its teeth...
...article, "Quest for Wisdom," tells the experiences of the first nine newspapermen to receive the scholarships donated by the late Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman, widow of the publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, in their "one big academic splurge...