Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financiers cannot very well do. Said he: "This depression is the stupidest and most gratuitous in history!" All the existing essential circumstances "except monetary wisdom," he declared, favor a return to prosperity and well being. Gold is the thing about which 1930 was stupid, about which 1931 must be wise. "The explanation of our anomalous situation," declared Lord d'Abernon, "is that the machinery for handling and distributing the product of labor has proved inadequate. The means of payment provided by currency and credit have fallen so short of the amount required by increased production that a general fall...
...Still wage with lips their travesty of war; We catch the rumor when the cannon cease. Here at the front, when most of the cannon rage, The dream-touched actors on this mighty stage In silence play their parts, and seem at peace. Lean, swart and homely, wise and sardonic...
Amazingly below the standard of the classics to which he has accustomed the public every year or so, it dresses him up in velvet lounging coats, British sack suits, exotic pajamas, and tailcoats, equips him with an effete but worldly-wise valet, shows him in modernistic apartments, offices, and on board ship, pursuing a Bebe Daniels who has dyed her hair blonde for the occasion. He is a market operator of incredible riches and naïveté who has never taken a drink or run after a woman until a friend makes a friendly bet at a party...
...pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy. Reading one of Selma Lagerlof's books is like listening to the more-than-shrewd conversation of a wise old lady, realistic, worldly, understanding. The tale the old lady has to tell may seem a very homely narrative about very simple people, but before you have listened long you realize she is telling you about Life. Unless you are sure you know all about it, you would do well...
...with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise than he, Irma Schmultz (for such was her plain name) insisted he keep their engagement secret for awhile. When weeks went by without a letter from him, Irma grew anxious, went to Washington. Daniel reassured her, but soon the truth came out: he was head-over-heels in love with...