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Word: wiseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zimmerman pointed out that New England has more at stake in a wise management of political problems than any other section of the United States. Politically New England must, in its own interests, be "radically conservative," he warned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YANKEE MUST LEAD AMERICA | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...Yankee must lead America on a wise course if the Yankee is to prosper," Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, said yesterday, when he addressed a conference of Y. M. C. A. leaders at Springfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YANKEE MUST LEAD AMERICA | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...story of the wise and lovely Candida, the shy and passionate young poet and the outwardly magnificent minister is almost too well-known to bear retelling. Candida is forced to choose between her husband, a complacent and fabulously successful preacher, and David Marchbanks, a sensitive and pathetic boy of eighteen who "understands" her, And paradoxically it is the Reverend James Mavor Morell who wins out, because he is weaker in hid magnificent external strength than Marchbanks, who clings to his loneliness and misery as a retreat form a world where you have to decide how much to tip the cabby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb his future planned aggressions. He was described as looking much tenser than usual. Suddenly his entourage realized when he began that, having prepared no speech, he might in a moment of oratorical ecstasy say something which it might not be wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peaceful Fuhrer | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...quality as a movie star is a frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works out the routines for most of their numbers, then teaches them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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