Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Power to pardon rests with His Majesty's Home Secretary, at present the Rt. Hon. John Robert Clynes, onetime worker in a cotton mill. One night last week he sat up late, thought about one Olive Catherine Wise. She had put a baby (hers) in an oven (cold) and turned on the gas. She had been sentenced to hang. Were there extenuating circumstances...
...Miss Wise, before she went to prison, chopped wood, peddled it in the streets. Thus she earned enough to feed her four children. When she found that a fifth was imminent, Miss Wise became desperate, asphyxiated her fourth...
After pondering the case, Mr. Clynes decided, decreed that life imprisonment is the right punishment for this unmarried, expectant mother. Appraising British journalists have insisted daily that, despite all she has been through, Miss Wise is still "pretty...
...Wise to the ways of dealers the Dales made several astute provisions in founding their French Museum. To prevent the ossification which creeps over many a museum's board, no one may be a trustee for a term longer than three years. To check commercialism, no living artist may give a one-man show in the pictures of no one pictures dealer or collector who known to deal in pictures may be shown exclusively...
...Connecticut (chairman), Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, Key Pittman of Nevada, Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, Peter Norbeck of South Dakota. After finishing a trip into Midwest and Western States and along the Canadian border, they announced that two more years would be necessary before they could become completely wise about conservation...