Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January Col. Procter, a devout Episcopalian, added $240,000 to a previous gift of $60,000 to the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio. Income from that augmented fund is to increase the salary of Henry Wise Hobson, the diocese's new bishop coadjutor whom Col. Procter and his co-religionists brought from All Saints' Church at Worcester, Mass. (TIME, May 12, 1930). Bishop Hobson presided at the children's research clinic dedication last week...
...stage manager for the old Madison Square Theatre. He claimed to have been the first to sink footlights into the stage. Later he began writing and producing plays with Daniel Frohman. In 1889. Caroline Dudley Carter was sensationally divorced by her husband Leslie of the Little Liver Pills family. Wise theatrical heads shook dubiously a year later when Producer Belasco had the temerity to star Mrs. Leslie Carter in The Ugly Duckling. The show and its leading lady were outstanding successes. Mrs. Carter worked for Belasco for the next 16 years, quarreling with and leaving him when she married again...
...Moore and John Addington Symonds, Thomas Tallis (1515-85, "the father of English cathedral music") and John Haynes Holmes, Manhattan preacher and civic reformer.† Once a Unitarian, Dr. Holmes became an independent in 1919. Friend of many a Jewish leader, he is especially close to Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, with whom he lately agitated against Manhattan's dapper Mayor James John Walker (TIME, March 23 et seq.). Three of his works are included in the Reformed Hymnal. One stanza, in his hymn No. 76, is not recommended by the committee...
...convincing as well as mildly entertaining homily. John Boles, whose previous roles have included opportunities for barytone singing, maintains a placid demeanor as Bart Carter. Genevieve Tobin, who has become recognized as the most civilized home-wrecker of the talkies, sparkles pleasantly as Mildred. It's a Wise Child (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the minor stage contributions of the late David Belasco (see p. 28) was this obstetrical little farce, fragile and inoffensive, which deals glibly with a complicated case of mistaken pregnancy. As cinema, the obstetrical aspects are made to seem even more innocent by the writhing...
...record jump of 24 ft. 1-4 in. by R. B. Donner in the broad jump was not allowed by Referee Wadsworth in view of the favoring wind, and Harding's 198-foot performance with the spear was like-wise not allowed...