Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Right or sound-money horse of his team bounded so far ahead when spurred by the bond news that the dollar was yanked from 66 to 70? on foreign exchange. Left Horse Whipped. As soon as the sound-money horse got ahead, the President felt it wise to whip up his Left horse, the steed of inflation. A "high authority'' was at pains to explain in detail to the Associated Press...
...Assia. a Russian girl who lives in the next room, nurses him, sends for Annette, and mother and son are reconciled. When Marc is convalescent he and Assia fall in love. Assia, who has been through a scarring mill, tells Annette her life story, offers to leave Marc. But wise Annette tells her to forget it, gives them her blessing...
...tutor fingered an ashtray which was decorated with the Icelandic arms, and spoke easy confidence. The tutees tried to look wise as two old cats, an effect unachieved, for the one seemed slightly draggled be recent revels, and the other played nervously with a cigarette. "The lay of Hildebrand," said the hierophant, "survives only because two monks broke their vows of obedience. To stamp out paganism the Church had ordered all vernacular writings destroyed. It succeeded very well, for it used conquest to extend its influence, or, in failing that, it converted a Germanic chieftain by offering him a plump...
...recent years Lord Harmsworth, Mr. Pearson, and the intolerable Bottomley have made a hearty and sincere attempt to remedy this; they have told a great number of lies, often on important things, they have raved and stamped their feet and babbled in the true Hearstian metaphysic, and in this wise many heads have been broken and many papers sold. But their energy has not created a movement: the main current of British journalism is placid and undisturbed, and in the mention of a double column headline its managing editors still find the potent smell of heresy...
...Garfield practiced law in Cleveland, taught at Western Reserve and Princeton, became Williams' president in 1908. In 1917 Woodrow Wilson appointed him U. S. Fuel Administrator. Dr. Garfield is celebrated as earnest Dry and as founder of the Williamstown Institute, summer symposium of wise minds on world problems...