Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this bit of wisdom, the reader has to swallow the whole Shulman shovelful of old wheezes, soggy puns, strained parodies and cheap leers at the female form, a mixture that might be the waste from S. J. Perelman's basket. Sample: "I was going down to Florida anyhow," hums the rich girl. "There's some alligators down there making...
...Mormon Church. A lean, intense and handsome man, Petersen started out as a News cub at 20 and is still very much a newsman; his staffers' call him "Mark," instead of "Brother," as is customary with other high church dignitaries. Obedient to the Mormon "Word of Wisdom" no News staffer smokes or drinks alcohol, tea or coffee at the News, though it employs some non-Mormons...
...Only Heir." The sober Frankfurter Rundschau listed contradictions in the German and French positions. Then it said: "The statesmen of Europe seem to have reached the end of their wisdom-or of their courage. Don't they see that they cannot continue this policy of thoughtlessness, that it must inevitably end in social chaos, and that the only heir of such a state is Stalin...
...unflinchingly as his professional trainer, a quiet, rawboned outdoorsman named George Evans, dismounted and fired a shotgun in the air. Quail drummed up out of the grass (birds are not killed at out-of-season trials), and Brownie raced away again. After that he performed with brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest heaving, at the end of his trial, Judge Nash Buckingham of Memphis said...
...these three religions from a philosophical, not a practical, point of view. Judaism, he says, is a covenant which binds together one chosen group of people in an exclusive pact with God. Catholicism "is the enterprise of establishing in some effective fashion a synthesized tradition which will embody the wisdom of the ages." Protestantism is the most adaptable member of the triumvirate, and exists in a different form in the mind of each believer...