Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first when the new Solicitor General appeared before the Supreme Court and delivered the kind of hoarse, high-flown preachments which used to win him cases before North Carolina jurors, some of the wise old Justices on the nation's highest bench looked displeased. Gradually they grew more tolerant of Solicitor General Bigg's performances. Latterly they have been seen to wink at one another while he was speaking. Once in the midst of an hour's oration to the court, Mr. Biggs was interrupted by Chief Justice Hughes: "Mr. Solicitor General, you have talked 45 minutes...
...former residents of this village, have been sending in clippings of the story from daily papers wanting to know who Herman Strutter is. Postal cards addressed to Herman Strutter from clipping bureaus, stating that for 10 or 25? they will send him an item of interest have been received. Wise Perry post-office employes place Strutter's mail in the Herald box. Climax was the receipt of advertising from artificial limb companies...
Last week almost the entire cinema industry-producers, exhibitors, makers of sound equipment-felt sheepishly good. A fox which had been snarling at their heels for more than a year was curtly flicked back into his hole by Washington's nine wise old men, and the industry wondered why it ever got excited in the first place...
...lets his patients who like alcohol drink it moderately, for its soothing and relaxing effects. Dr. Brooks thinks that the tendency to suffer angina pectoris is hereditary. Said he: "It would not be wise to advise marrying among individuals with angina pectoris...
Chief of the veterans were Johnny Adzigian, stellar third sacker a year ago, Bill Lincoln, on whom the main burden of the pitching will rest, Captain Dick Maguire, Drib Braggiotti, a potentially fine pitcher, Ben Prouty, the speedy outfielder, and wise-cracking Craig Woodruff...