Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these circumstances, Elizabeth Bergner's performance is on the order of Monologist Ruth Draper's. She is first seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death...
When Wesley Fesler came, like young Lochinvar, out of the West, to herald the renaissance of Harvard basketball last year, a renaissance devoutly to be wished after dark ages under the tutelage of Ed Wachter, local fans and wise-acres tossed caps in air and cheered for the undefeated season that was to come. When it didn't appear, dark gloom settled again, but Fesler persevered, with the encouragement and critical advice of Big Bill Bingham, in his attempt to instill the rudiments of the game into his charges. Now it seems that he has succeeded. The last period victory...
Managing Editor Walker will doubtless be given a chance to try his ideas. He was hired by Arthur Brisbane, whom Publisher Hearst put in charge of the ailing Mirror two months ago (TIME, Nov. 26). Already wise old Editor Brisbane had begun to tinker with the paper. He wheedled other publishers into voting for the Mirror's admittance to City News Association, the press service that covers Manhattan and The Bronx for its members. Consistently blackballed from membership, the Mirror had suffered badly in local coverage. Everything was set for the Mirror's election at last week...
...been deliberately planned by her publicity-wise husband George Palmer Putnam, Amelia Earhart's solo flight from Honolulu to the U. S. last week could not have been more perfectly timed. A weekend recess in the Hauptmann trial cleared the front pages of the U. S. Press for a good spot-news story. To fill that void at that conspicuous moment was a bit of showmanship of which Publicist Putnam might well have been proud...
Last week this wise old original was entertaining the wife of neighbor Nicaragua's President Juan Sacasa over the New Year holidays in high, pleasant San Jose. Her departure was an occasion for a parting gift. One of Costa Rica's three railroads had been electrified and had some obsolete equipment. President Jimenez presented Senora Sacasa with two oil-burning locomotives, used but serviceable, for Nicaragua's under-equipped railroads...