Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questions of deportment that Emily Post passed by. It takes some 17 corpses, an armored car with no end of gangsters, a lunatic, and a number of amiable and stupid minions of the law, but the answers are all there in the end. And so are Joan Blondell, the wise little girl from Three Rivers, Illinois, and Wallace Ford, the rip-roaring cow-puncher from Peach Springs, Arizona, in each other's arms. It's very sweet, and all so terribly exciting. The horrid audience just would insist on laughing the rude things...
There are some who feel that it would be a wise step to force the H.A.A. to balance its budget on this year's program, to make the stringent economies which such a policy would necessitate. Such retrenchments, they feel, would tend to reduce the overemphasis on athletics, and moreover the importance of the coach. A man's independence they claim, is not improved by constant supervision. And with this consideration in mind, they argue that the H.A.A. should not be allowed to extend its budget through another year, an action which would render much easier the balancing...
Requesting each recipient to contribute to the book's second edition, Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard sent to friends 500 copies of his "Connotary." a compilation of "definitions not found in dictionaries, collected from the sayings of the wise and the otherwise." Samples: Alimony, a fine levied on a man guilty of matrimony. Horse Sense, just stable thinking. Diplomat, a man who remembers a woman's birthday and forgets...
...Assuming that some are not benefited, do you think that it would be wise to recognize this condition and establish two degrees an Honors Degree, with tutorial instruction and general examinations are optional...
...bill puts a great deal of power into the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture, who is charged with the task of price indices and with their distribution. It is also true that it seeks to raise the prices of farm products to a higher level than is wise in an experiment as yet untested. Finally it may be pointed out that although it is advanced as an emergency measure, its usefulness will terminate with its existence and that its continuation will bring up still further difficulties...