Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote Scripps-Howard's tart, smart Westbrook Pegler: "There is a sentimental, silver-threads-among-the-gold tradition that people of 60 years and up are uniformly wise and sweet and kind, and also pathetic. There is a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-around uselessness of which they may have been guilty . . . while they were putting in their time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn...
...Caesar was created in the Papal State last week, and unto him were rendered for six months the things which are Caesar's. Screamed headlines: DICTATOR NAMED FOR VATICAN CITY. In effect wise old Pius XI delegated all but the things which are God's in the Papal State to its trusty Governor, Marquis Camillo Serafini...
...coach has been construed as a personal attack against Mr. Harlow. Having no such intention, we were solely concerned, as we have been all fall, with the principles which should govern the conduct of Harvard football. That there may be no further misunderstanding, we feel it wise to outline these principles...
...Douglas, who was awarded an honorary LL.D. here in 1933 "for saving the national credit by wise and just economy" has won his reputation through government service. When he served in Congress from 1927 to 1933, he criticized the Hoover Administration for failing to take sufficiently decisive action to achieve recovery. At that time, he was generally regarded as a liberal...
...foregoing paragraphs have argued for the promotion of able tutors as a matter of sound, long-range policy. It remains to mention a reason why it is expedient as well as wise...