Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly amusing and penetrating satire on art as Hollywood does it. The play has to do with a group of vaudeville actors who find themselves stranded in the big city on the eve of the Vitaphone's first great practical success. There are three of them. May Daniels a wise cracking campaigner Jerry Highland who must have been the interlocutor for the skit, and George Lewis, a mental inferior who diets on Indian nuts. The girl, played by Jean Dixon, conceives the idea that Hollywood needs a school of vocal culture and that she is willing to play the adept...
...this year it is different. I too have gone through an undefeated season: my power has become supreme and the wizards of football have groveled at my feet begging for elemency. But despite all my omnipotence I have been wise and just. Today the epitome of my wisdom will be shown. Despite the three week layoff, the probable wet field, and the strain of being the favored team Harvard will come out on top by a 13 to 6 score...
...wise, a Grecian temple, builded on a gilded coast...
...This stanza is the peculiar handiwork of Tennyson alone. It was thought wise by the authors to allow him space in these columns and by this publicity to repay him in some small way for the debt incurred. Also the idea is a particularly happy one, and it does not lie within the powers of the present authors to improve upon the phraseology. The authors further wish to point out to their readers that the above work will be greatly enhanced if compared with the original poems, which can be purchased at your local dealer or directly from the factory...
...when the War was over a famous Russian musician brought his orchestra to the city. Mendel heard his friends talking about it, thought nothing of it until the door opened and in walked the musician, inquiring for one Mendel Singer. It was Menuchim, whom pain had made wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong. Moreover he was prosperous. His troubles over, Mendel Singer prayed again...