Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wise & witty Ted Clark was not made officially a member of the Hoover secretariat. He was not sworn in as a government employe. He was working for nothing so far as the Federal payroll was concerned. Yet he had all the prestige and all the power of the political job he was filling...
...Increased capital expenditures by industry. Chairman was Andrew Wells Robertson (Westinghouse) who told the conference: "Our financial men say the turn is made. They are wise men and I believe them. But when I look around my bailiwick I see no change. We don't come near being in the black figures...
Married. Cathleen Vanderbilt Gushing, 30, daughter of the late Reginald Vanderbilt, just divorced from Harry Cooke Gushing III, Manhattan broker; and Lawrence Wise Lowman, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; in Hempstead...
...last week. The eight that remained lighted were occupied as follows: two by last season musical comedies (The Cat & The Fiddle, Of Thee I Sing), two by revivals (Show Boat, That's Gratitude), two by plays which opened at the tail end of the season (Another Language, Bridal Wise), two by new plays as doleful as the doldrums which have beset the theatre all summer...
...Jeronimo journeyed on into the interior "it seemed as though everything here was ambiguous, merely a substitute for something else, but only in the sense in which things are substitutes for their souls, events for their meaning. . . ." Berna, fey-wise daughter of a drunken planter, half fell in love with him, but he was looking for something else. At Riquem's plantation Jeronimo spent a tense evening: his host's white wife, who had run off into the bush with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited...