Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the New York Herald Tribune commented fortnight ago upon the failure of Manhattan's Noise Abatement Commission to produce a noiseless ashcan, its editorial was headlined, Ellis Parker Butler-wise: "Ashcans Is Ashcans." Few days later the meticulous Boston Transcript reprinted the editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...
...Watson finished explaining how wheat growers held the Farm Board-and the Republican Party-responsible for low prices (35^ per bu. in Kansas), the President dispatched a message to Chairman Stone in which he "suggested" that "in view of unusual conditions growing out of the Depression ... it would be wise for the Farm Board to consider a more definite policy in respect to sales...
...while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator Pilsudski sent puppet President Moscicki to the unveiling. He drove with Mrs. Wilson and the Baruch family through streets of cheering citizens. As President Moscicki came abreast...
...first week of the session. As further political insurance, the President also had his moratorium plan approved by potent Democrat Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee which fixed German Reparations "permanently'' in 1929. Announced Mr. Young: "The proposal . . . is not only the action of a wise creditor but the helpful word of a great democracy. Coming at a time when we are all beginning to doubt whether a democracy could act promptly, wisely and helpfully, it is most encouraging...
...potentialities of the strange story as hot-weather reading were in nowise chilled by Nassau County's publicity-wise District Attorney Elvin Newton Edwards, who had just finished the noisy business of sending hare-brained Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley to the electric chair (TIME, June 15). Soon after Starr Faithfull's body was found, the district attorney announced she had been killed by two men. one prominent in politics, her body taken out in a boat and thrown overboard. Next day he declared that the girl was knocked unconscious aboard a boat, then thrown into the water. By then...