Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cases in court as intensely as if they had been national issues. With great personal enthusiasm he invested in various local enterprises and took with grave responsibility a big local bank directorship. He bought a modest estate in green, pretty, outlying Chagrin Valley and took to horse ?polo-wise (foxhunting was a trifle slow). For years he never touched airplane. Nor did it occur to him to travel to Europe. There was plenty of work, fun, people in Cleveland...
...pray. Almighty and everlasting God, from whom alone cometh wisdom and power, grant unto us wise laws and fewer of them. . . . Amen...
...that all Japanese are supposed really and truly to believe that their Emperor is the "Son of Heaven," the lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess and himself genuinely divine. Whether they believe it or not, Japanese statesmen have to act as though they believed that the Emperor is all-wise, can no more do wrong than can Jehovah. This being so, Japanese who oppose the London Naval Treaty became absolutely boiling mad last week when Baron Shidehara in defending the Treaty said: "Well, do you suppose the Emperor would have signed it if it was not good...
Born. To Mrs. Olive Catherine Wise, British mother of four who was sentenced to be hanged last month for murdering her fourth child (sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Home Secretary John Robert Clynes) (TIME, Feb. 2); twins; in Holloway Prison Hospital, London...
...more than two months wise Pittsburghers have been aware of the imminence of last week's deal. Bethlehem officials have been seen in McClintic-Marshall's offices, lunching with McClintic-Marshall men at the Duquesne Club. Hence when the announcement was made Pittsburgh was ready to judge its significance...