Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the Russian, up stood Ger man Delegate Rudolf Nadolny to hail President Hoover's "wise proposals" and express his "particular...
...most critical conventions that our party has ever held. . . . I appreciate the high honor. . . . I am a progressive in deed as well as in word in the truest and most Democratic sense. We are in a safe majority . . . if we stand together. . . . I hope history will point to your wise action at Chicago. . . . I shall welcome any suggestions you may have to make and I hope to see you in person very soon. Please accept my assurance that you will always have the gratitude and friendship of?...
...like to take their summer literary pabulum cradled in a hammock will find Authoress Eliat's Oriental tale breezy enough to keep them rocking comfortably. Perfumed with voluptuous myrrh and frankincense, it subtly insinuates a more acrid wind that whispers:-Vanity, all is vanity. "Except the next woman," wise King Solomon, ensconced in his hive of wives, says solomonly. When he hears that Balkis, Queen of Sheba. is coming to study his incomparable wisdom, he looks forward to the first lesson with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel-litter with...
...Trained in harmonies, a man will begin to try to harmonize himself. Of his cacophonies he will no longer say. " 'Well, I am like that' or 'The Lord made me what I am,' which has some charm, perhaps, when associated with sweet seventeen but other wise is pretty sickening." This self-harmonizing, self-training, is for the Abbe the beginning of wisdom, and the Good. Though "a commonwealth of intelligent egoism has been built by the millions, and a skillful combination of the idealism of the few with the contributions of the many has largely eliminated...
...well as for herself, Leda gives herself to him, but he goes to War just the same. When she bears a child Blount, who is impotent, thinks it is his. Leda does not undeceive him. He has grown more & more powerful, more & more self-assured during Wartime politics. But wise Leda knows on what a frail basis his necessary self-assurance stands. When Clune comes, crippled, back from the front Leda will not tell even him whose child she has borne, sends him back to Kathy to make the best of her. Her incomparable management has enabled her two true...