Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years old he had been arrested 37 times, but had been in prison only twice. Gaining skill, he went to London, opened a gaudy gaming place in Kensington, and as "The Honorable Lionel Musgrave, United States Senator," collected $800,000 from British sportsmen before he found it wise to depart. In Ceylon his fame spread when he swindled an Indian jewel merchant out of a basket of gems worth $250,000. In 1913, before Philadelphia police closed "The National Old Age Pension Bureau," he had made $50,000 more. As old age came upon Mr. Woodward he looked back upon...
Chief public work of First Lady Mei-ling is her orphanage for the children of soldiers killed in her husband's battles. Asked about joining President Chiang in the march, she gently said: "Yes, I have often thought of that, often! But it has never seemed wise to put both our lives in jeopardy at the same time." Up to last week all Wellesley visitants continued to report that First Lady Mei-ling pours tea in a Chinese gown of finest silk, wears shoes of Wellesley (not Chinese) cut, speaks English with a Boston accent, affects plenteous diamond & platinum...
...addition to the loan of this building and the many other material gifts of the city, in the form of street construction, etc., I am personally deeply indebted to many members of the Harvard faculty for an abundance of wise counsel. The late Mr. Burke gave me unstintingly of his time, energy, knowledge and ability in conference, advice and investigation, as have Mr. Parkhurst, Mr. Endicott, Prof. Hall, Prof. Killam of the department of architecture, and Dean Holmes and Prof. Dudley, of the graduate school of education...
...gold medal for "diction." Cinemactor Arliss, who was also co-author of the play on which the cinema was based, revels in the intrigues, political and amorous, which preceded the passage of Hamilton's Assumption Bill. He foils the efforts of catchpenny opponents to make him withdraw this wise legislation (by which the U. S. Government assumed war debts contracted by the 13 colonies) and is at last congratulated on its passage by a caucus of colonial celebrities including President Washington...
...make out a fat bunch of reading cards you'll get a good grade. Anyhow, you can't just ignore Babbitt: either you've got to throw the baby out with the bathtub, or get away with him and be cleansed of all Romanticism, or, if you're really wise, you'll wash away his prejudices and persiflage and get to the main body underneath...