Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ahead at the wire. Another Pennsylvanian, Bill Carr, ran a dead heat with Johnny Lewis of Detroit City College in the 300-yd. race and won the runoff. In the 1,000-yd., Ray Conger had to beat George Bullwinkle, intercollegiate one-mile outdoor champion, and wise fans said he could not do it. They knew how Bullwinkle-a pacemaker as well as a finisher-liked to beat a finisher like Conger by getting so far ahead that no sprint would catch him. But this time Conger stuck to Bullwinkle's heels. Bullwinkle never got more than three yards...
...music-wise will welcome the return of Walter, eagerly await what he may do with a worthy orchestra. That he is a serious, sincere musician was proved at the beginning of his career when his name was Schlesinger. He conducted a performance of Die Meistersinger and Felix Weingartner, his superior, was so pleased with the results that he dubbed him Walter, after Wagner's hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once...
...Town Hall meeting which opened with a few amiable pleasantries from moonfaced, unctuous Alexander Woollcott. Up rose shock-headed Lewis Mumford, author of Sticks and Stones, able commentator on modern U. S. architecture, fervent Wrightite, and proceeded in a slow, booming voice to rend the ''wise men from the East" who are designing Chicago's Fair...
...hostess") at the U. S. Embassy in Paris last week. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge assembled not the impotent dukes and counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose names stand in France for economic power. Up from Lyons came M. Edmond Gillet, calm, wise, secretive "silk King of France.'' In bustled short and forceful M. Andre Homberg, bald but bewhiskered* president† of the French Line, of the Societe General (one of the largest French banks), high executive of the famed Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-lits. Came...
...Before disbanding Pianists Maier & Pattison will play in Chicago, Minneapolis, La Crosse, Wise., Rochester, Minn., St. Paul, Muskegon, Portsmouth, Ohio, Cleveland, Lawrence, Neb., Sioux Falls, S. Dak. La Porte...