Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still asleep" when he jumped and "was killed" how do you know what he was dreaming? However your surmise, if such, is good. On the other hand it appears that Arthur Fournier was a "fool." It is not always wise to jump from a. sinking ship and seldom wise to jump through a window...
Referring to the Wilson practice of "adjourning politics" and appointing Republicans to office, Mr. McAdoo declared: "It was a wise course and it gave some of the Republican leaders of today their start in political life. Herbert Hoover was one. Hoover was a practically unknown man who had spent most of his adult life abroad. . . . His chief distinction had been acquired in distributing free food to the Belgian people-a celebrity easily won. I fancy, as the job of giving away things requires very little wear and tear on one's ability...
That in such circumstances the German mark should touch par last week, wise-acres attributed to speculative confidence springing from the fact that Germany had at last taken the Hoover-Laval "initiative" and seemed on the way to a new easing of her threatened fiscal position. But for the Dawes Committee the post-War mark could never have been stabilized on a gold basis. But for the Young Committee it could not have been kept there. But for bright hopes spurting from the proposed new committee the mark might not have hung high last week...
...witch claimed would return Jack's father's treasures. Fairy beanstalks need no nurturing so it took only a second for one to spring out of the Juilliard stage, for Jack to go shinnying up and find the giant's castle. Then & there the wise cow would have appraised the swaggering giant at his worth, for although he looked fierce storming about and devouring whole roasts of meat, he was more his real self when singing in a silly, spindling falsetto...
...leave her husband for him. then made him feel a fool by telling her husband all about it and changing her mind. On the verge of a breakdown Hugo made an unforgivable scene, pulled gossipy Corny Cooke's nose. In despair he confided his trapped feelings to Marianne, wise young daughter of the house. She advised him to go away, stop writing hits, stop being lionized. Gratefully he took her advice, went off into obscurity with the hope of coming back some time...