Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that guidance should be done not in any bustling office, with its paraphenalia of efficiency, but in a comfortable room with comfortable chairs, across cigars or cigarettes. In an environment which bespeaks leisure and intimacy. In stressing the value of the human quality, the committee has done a wise thing...
Among the crowds gawked a lanky, weather-beaten German, Paul Muller, 47- Columbus-wise, he had sailed a 25-foot boat across the Atlantic and arrived at Havana, fortuitously, just in time for the Inaugural. His first act in Havana was to write his German sweetheart a 24-page letter, mostly about the sea and love. Soon he had much more to write to her about, for in Havana he heard many a story, many a scandal about President Machado's administration. Among the authentic stories were: The General governs with iron-hand-in-velvet-glove. Latin-Americans want...
...attach to giving them public notice. Concealment, rightly or wrongly, always gives the impression that there is something questionable or arbitrary about the concealed. If only to clear the air of a somewhat sultry haze if not as a courtesy to the men affected, the committees responsible would be wise to give out a clear and concise statement of their position...
...their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
...eggs, then under the blue cloak a selection of bottles, or of sweetmeats, or of eggs would be borne to a friend's house, where for an hour the old man sat in dignity, and calm, opening and closing his eyes and his jack-knife; uttering meanwhile detached remarks, wise, gruff, biting, yet seldom lacking a kernal of kindness, till bedtime came, nine o'clock, and he was gone, the gifts--if thanks were feared--left in a chair by the door...