Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of the Supreme Court's decision. In the background sat Mrs. Roosevelt, knitting a blue sock. Another chair behind the President was reserved for Senate Majority Leader Joseph Robinson who arrived ten minutes after the show started. Circulating among the correspondents was Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, old, wise, grumpy...
With focal infection as his theme the Billings Lecturer must be an eminent clinician, a topnotch diagnostician, a wise interpreter of the symptoms which a patient brings to his examination room. Billings Lecturers in the past have included such front-rank men as Dr. Joseph Leggett Miller, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Chicago, specialist in vaccine therapy and rheumatism; Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner, Cornell professor of medicine, editor of the American Heart Journal; Dr. James Bryan Herrick of Chicago, specialist in diseases of the heart and blood vessels; the late William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), 1928 president...
...colleague and wanders down to the floor to confer with Senators, when he chats with Senatorial friends over a few highballs in his office, when Leader Robinson, Whip Harrison and other Administration men of House and Senate drop in to consult him. For he is recognized as a wise old man of Congress. A word from him and the strategy of handling a bill may be changed overnight. Seldom does he speak of the merits of a bill, but to those who want to know he drops a hint of how a bill may be passed. That work relief...
...will be tickled with a copper hook, stimulated into lighting a neon bulb in front of its tank, only three times a day, at 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Said Trainer V. W. Coates: "He was glad to light his bulb at first but then he got wise to the wires and refused to shoot juice into them. Now I have to tickle him. If he's feeling right he lights two bulbs...
...Very Rev. Richard ("Dick") Sheppard, Canon of St. Paul's, Chaplain to King George V. Further, Garland Anderson claimed the backing of Sir John Simon, icy British Foreign Minister. Less impressively, his New York sponsors were Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, all three of whom lend their names frequently...