Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lewis Williams Douglas: Who in times of lessened public revenue, and increased expense, is engaged in saving the national credit by wise and just economy...
...conclusions and recommendations: "President Roosevelt's abandonment of the gold standard and steps to expand credit were absolutely necessary. The plans to which our Government is now committed, for arresting the deflation and bringing about some rise in prices, and for lowering trade barriers, are sound and wise and go to the root of the matter...
...victim--a reasonable request--and when this was refused by the board, began a demonstration. Here again the limits of decorum may have been passed, but surely it was stupid for the board to call policemen with clubs to cope with an outburst of indignant emotion, and still less wise to suspend two of the protesting teachers. To grant the public trial asked for would do more to restore morale among teachers and students than stubbornness and punishment. Policemen's clubs and presidential umbrellas are no longer believed to have much educative value. --The Nation...
Quoth the wise young Sophomore. "There are three types of people in this so-called University: the first gets four C's, the second takes a dish of tea with T. S. Eliot, the third studies...
...patent medicines. Once he took six boxes of anti-fat pills, which upset his heart. His doctor mildly rebuked him, said "that I oughtn't to take medicines without con-suiting him. And of course he is quite right. It is perfectly staggering the idiotic things even a wise man will do." Though Bennett wrote for money and made a good income (as high as $75,000) he was not extravagant; but he had foibles. "In the morning, early, I went into Selfridge's, which ought not to have been open, and bought a pencil that writes...