Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is merely an index of how this nation is penny-wise and pound-foolish. New York city is having an epidemic of robberies such as it has not had for years. More than once recently a longshoremens strike has tied up ocean travel. New York has been spending money like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion...
From the legitimate stage there will be many stars of varying magnitude, among whom are Alice Brady of "Forever After"; Marguerite Zenda and the "Angel Face" Company; William Gillette and Madge Bellamy of "Dear Brutus"; Fay Marbe, Adele Rowland, May Milburn, Claude Gillingwater and the "Three Wise Fools" Company, and a number of others...
Among the actors and actresses who will attend are the following: Alice Brady, June Caprice, Jane Cowl, William Gillette, Madge Bellamy and the entire Dear Brutus Company, William S. Hart, The Angel Face Company, Henry Davenport, Howard Gould and Claude Dillingwater of "Three Wise Fools." Many other actors and actresses of equal prominence are expected, and an opportunity will be offered to meet them personally in an informal way. Tickets at $1 each are now on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's and the Co-operative Branch...
...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
Some time ago, before the Treaty had been done to death, a wise man said that the only place where it was safe to be a rabid pro-German in this country was in the United States Senate. Senator Borah, with his horrid fears that poor Germany was going to be crushed; Senator Reed, who was elected by the Germans of St. Louis; Senator Johnson, who apparently preferred, as long as the dear Germans could not keep Shantung, to do anything rather than let the "despicable Japanese" have what was promised them--all of them played into Germany's hands...