Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of right or wrong in the coal fields, the action taken by Kentucky in attempting to suppress all investigation of the rumored regain of terror in its coal counties touches on the problem of freedom of the press. Whether the courts and citizens of a state are wise in attempting to defy this principle can be shown by the results in this instance...
America (usually intelligent, travel-wise, fully aware of the unquestioned joy of getting really off the beaten path) knows what South America has to offer. It is also time that South Americans know another type of tourist than the one which religiously fails to survive the daily cocktail hour, snorts ceaselessly at the embryonic plumbing, and tries to carve his initials on the Lima cathedral. From the Andes to the Atlantic, northern South America offers: the world's largest untamed (but travel-easy) wilderness, peerless hunting, excellent fishing, real but tractable savages, colorful waterways and jungle paths, and altogether...
...Federal appropriation, half of which would be given the States outright for road construction, the other half to be loaned to States whose Governors, promising laws for repayment, certified that their relief agencies were no longer operative. An alternate proposal by New York's Senator Wagner, wise to joblessness, was that the money be apportioned to States on the basis of their unemployment registry in the 1930 census. Observers sensed that the Senate was groping desperately for a plan that did not smack of the politically fearful word DOLE...
...York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together in a guarded block. Theoretically...
...pictures, by making a cast out of his friends, his servants, the people who pass him on the street. "Ach," he says, "you are a crook. No, you are head of a gang of blackmailers. . . . You know everything, everybody." Pleased at his prowess in such conceits, he assumes a wise expression and rolls his eyes ? the cameras for an endless hypothetical scenario...