Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Corporation as an afterthought tactfully suggests that the resolution is in no wise ot be taken as a reflection on either Drinker or the Collins Company, it is too obvious that as the University, retreating from the melee, determines to forestall a similar abuse, it is at the same time making a final pass at the enfant terrible...
...Orleans newspapers for days & days did not carry a line on the Union Indemnity crash after their first brief inside-page stories. When they received Washington dispatches on Congressman Fish's charges last week they killed them, ostrich-wise, at President Hecht's urgent request. Of course the news went out to newspapers in the North. Hibernia Bank & Trust, doing a nation-wide business, began to suffer heavy out-of-town withdrawals, and the news seeped through New Orleans' financial district. President Hecht wired complete refutation of the charges and Congressman Fish offered to review the facts...
Perhaps it would be wise if some of our Methodist divines would use Pastor Keiding's type of strategy...
...before he could write his A B C's. At 9, a zealous, frail, brown-eyed boy, he lectured the Chicago Microscopical Society on microbes and laboratory technique, showed his own lantern slides. During a fatiguing lecture which ran far beyond his regular bedtime, he grew pale. A wise scholar picked up the child, held him inverted by his feet. Right-side up again Young Turck continued his lecture. Father Turck decided that biology excited the child too much, diverted him to mathematics, economics, finance. Fenton Benedict Truck Jr., 30, is now a vice president...
...Manhattan last week Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, daughter of the late great Banker-Railroader Edward Henry Hardman, announced that through her Co-operative Agricultural Organization Society she was about to send 50 farm-wise metropolitan families upstate to wrest their living from the land. If the project proved successful, she had some land of her own in Virginia to colonize with other jobless...