Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi ministers tackled the Servant Problem in this wise: Heads of families who employ domestic servants may count them as dependent minors on income tax returns. Cooks and chambermaids will pay lower taxes than girls in shops and factories...
...should like to say that the suggestion in your editorial, "If his retention merely in the capacity of sculling coach is not an agreeable arrangement, then a genuine effort should be made to find some position in the athletic department supplementary to the sculling," seems wise, far-sighted, and fair. Horace G. Reisner...
...Francis Wylie. He, a wrinkled onetime philosophy don, never forgets the name, college and home town of a Rhodes Scholar. Once he presented 250 Rhodesmen to Edward of Wales, remembered them all. Lady Wylie always presided at tea, had every Scholar to dinner once a year. Sir Francis, wise and tactful, was knighted in 1929 for his Rhodes work. In 1931 the current crop of Rhodesmen gave the Wylies a silver salver, a scroll, a dining room suite...
That was the high point of the fight. Too wise to give Chocolate another opening, Watson chopped at him warily for the next four rounds. In the 12th. Watson cut Chocolate's lip with a right uppercut. He won the 15th as well, but both judges, the referee and most of the crowd agreed that Chocolate still deserved his title...
...having been run up from a $250,000 inheritance from her coal-dealing father). To cause her to purchase $3,800,000 of bank stock was to force upon her a huge investment with only a 25% margin -hardly, as Mr. Medalie points out, the act of a wise banker or considerate husband. If Mr. Mitchell had not repurchased the stock later, she would owe J. P. Morgan $3,000,000 today and she, as well as he, would today be ruined. Indeed, Mrs. Mitchell did not have sufficient income to pay even the interest on the loan to carry...