Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shortridge looks too wise to know anything...
...annual award of honorary degrees is an opportunity to recognize genuine greatness. This year's list is perhaps typical, and each one of the recipients represents one of the accomplishments toward which the University tries to direct its students. The honorary degree is the discriminating praise of a wise and impartial judge. It must be used not simply as further honor for men who have already won fame, but as the reward of greatness in the world's most honorable activities...
...always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will do the Trigo is Irish-reared, Irish-owned (Mr. William Barnett, corn-broker) Many Belfastians bet on Trigo, odds: 33 to 1. They too were proved wise. Trigo...
...Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them all to the dinner...
...York Times; in Rochester, N. Y., where he got his start on the Post-Express. The local Press Club which he helped found in 1888 gave him a banquet. Encomiums poured in signed by Hoover, Taft, Coolidge, Smith, Roosevelt, Eastman, Pulitzer, Swope, Bok, Block, Bernstein, Cohn, Wise, Lazansky...