Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international fame. They are enormously funny, and like most lasting humor, are the products of an unhappy mind. Three Thurber drawings that his associates on The New Yorker would never print were on view in his exhibition last week. Two were blasphemous: The Thurber Madonna and The Three Wise Men (three goggle-eyed oldsters smirking behind their hands at something that might be the Virgin). The third was The Gates of Life. Glum pedestrians hustled by in the background; sprawled on the grass in the foreground was a horrid little girl hoisting her skirts before a legless War veteran, with...
Author Smith's humor depends chiefly on situation but he has the reputation of writing wise-crackling dialog. Random samples: " 'Say, officer,' continued the voice, 'let's waive the dog for a moment.' 'Don't see what good that's going to do,' grumbled the sergeant. 'It certainly won't help the dog any to go waving him about...
...last week the nine wise faces of nine elderly justices of the U. S. Supreme Court crinkled in sedate amusement as they wrung from a perspiring Assistant Attorney General the tale of how the New Deal's lawmaking machine had slipped...
...announcement by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that, despite the boasted British Treasury surplus, His Majesty's Government chose to welsh on their War-debt payment due the U. S. last week.* Snorted Liberal David Lloyd George: "I should have thought it was not altogether wise to boast to your creditor how much better off you are than he when you have not paid his bill...
...announced that he means to stump the entire British Isles with an avowedly Rooseveltian campaign for a British New Deal based on nationalization of the Bank of England, economic planning and high-pressure spending on public works. Cried he: "I think President Roosevelt has given the world a very wise lead. The American New Deal has shown how essential it is to reconstruct completely to defeat depression in every phase of economic life." Ridiculing His Majesty's Government's intention to spend 2,000,000 pounds rehabilitating certain depressed areas (TIME, Nov. 26), New Dealer Lloyd George told the Commons...