Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been Ngawang Lopsang Toupden Gyatso. In 1893, shortly before he took office, he thoughtfully ordered his regent and other advisers thrown into dungeons. As "Buddha of Mercy" he then had a long and prosperous life. If the 14th Reincarnation learns this much about the 13th, he may think it wise to do the same...
...last Senator Adams popped through the swing-door, worries and pencils sticking out all over him, brushed through the hovering swarm and trotted upstairs to the Senate floor. The bare fact that he had emerged was hot news in Congress-wise Washington...
Anti-New Dealers predicted and hoped that with Roosevelt on the run, and Government spending on the way out, private capital would go back to work, would more than make up investment-wise for the $3,000,000,000-odd of new Government money which the New Deal has pumped into the U. S. economy each year. Their hopes were raised when smiling, soft-spoken Acting Secretary of the Treasury John Hanes announced last week that business was doing fine, ". . . We are on the eve of what may be a real forward movement...
...sister and a hard-boiled realism that would do credit to a brothel-keeper. Sample Dix advice to the nubile: "A young girl who lets any one boy monopolize her simply shuts the door in the face of good times and her chances of making a better match. . . . The wise girl keeps a wary eye out to note how a man reacts to the money proposition before she says 'Yes' to a marriage proposal. . . . Few grafts are more profitable than comforting a widower. But remember that fast work is required. . . . Girls write their own price tags...
Meantime, the Cooks, who dearly loved royalty, had organized their Princes' Department, agreed that backdoor-wise Wagner was the man to handle footloose Maharajas. His duties: booking hotel suites, dispensing funds (Maharajas rarely carry a cent in their pantaloons), shooing away swindlers, for whom he has a keen nose...