Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Senate sits again (Dec. 3), merry will be the smiles, hearty the chuckles, wise the "cracks," between Republican Floorleader Curtis and Democratic Floorleader Robinson. Campaigning against each other will have altered their mutual feelings no more than it altered the lack of feeling between the Messrs. Smith and Hoover, who never met. "Charlie" Curtis and "Joe" Robinson are friends as good & old as are "Charlie" Curtis and that other "Charlie," Vice President Dawes, with whom Senator Curtis last week shook hands and beamed at cameras on the Capitol steps...
...Albania's representative at the Paris Peace Conference, and has taken active interest in the reconstruction and uplift of the nation since the War. He was in the country in September when Ahmet Zogu, then president of the Albanian Republic, was made king, and finds in the change a wise step toward the advancement of the nation...
...royalties of oil or cash. Sinclair's contract was to buy royalty oil from the U. S. at certain prices, with an option to renew the contract if he found the prices profitable. The voiding of Sinclair's buying contract in no wise affected leases in the Salt Creek field. Sinclair's contract was voided because his option was, in effect, secretly obtained, i.e., not mentioned in Fall's advertisement for bids...
...Peace Treaty, was antagonistic to the Treaty itself. He had many erudite theories. But President Wilson had long felt the onrush of foes, foreign & domestic. His visionary ardor had become imperiousness, self-sufficiency. He conferred with the Secretary only once, ignored his ideas. Robert Lansing impotently watched the wise foreign diplomats, wrote in his diary that Mr. Wilson was a "catspaw." The forcible, white-haired Secretary was himself not even permitted the directed force of a paw. His role was mere ritual. Often he pondered resigning, often refrained...
...Wise fellows-I call them wise guys...