Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion picture director can ever pass by a chance to introduce one of these three themes. Bobe and Ruby have a little scene that sort of embodies all three. A really good censor would have cut it out and left in a few more of Una Merkel's giggle wise-cracks. (Yes, I understand; if he were that good he wouldn't be a censor...
...which might be termed serene, but is more accurately called stupid. The lack of clothing is also exaggerated, and not surprisingly so when one considers that nights are frosty in these parts except for three months a year. The removal of clothing annoys the police, and the "Douks" are wise enough to know this. Many people in the vicinity think the best means of combating the tendency to disrobe would be to ignore it. This, as you may guess, takes nonchalance...
...route to & from the desert bandits occasionally shot at the diggers. But there were no casualties. The late J. McKenzie Young, who had charge of the motor cars, was once attacked while driving alone. He routed the assailants by guiding his car with one hand, firing his rifle pistol-wise with the other. During the ten years' work only two serious accidents occurred in the field. First was Dr. Andrews' shooting himself in the thigh. The other accident was a man's cutting a leg artery. At the very beginning of the work Dr. Andrews' eyes...
Frazier Jelke concluded: ''There is little evidence . . . that investment trusts have been either more fortunate or less wise than individual investors . . . during the bear market...
...cited as plausible explanations. But may it not be that the rising wave of popularity evidenced last spring was but the upswing of a cyclical movement which will sooner or later come to an end? And unless there is definite assurance that this is not so, would it be wise to rush into plans for enlarging the facilities to take care of larger classes...