Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) Legend tells that when great, good, wise Paul Bunyan was inventing and perfecting the logging industry in Real America, he thought up most of his profound ideas and amazing devices all by himself. But now and then there would be something that stumped him, and besides, keeping the great 100,000-page ledgers of his business took up too much of his time. So Paul Bunyan was a very happy man the day he found John Rogers Inkslinger sitting bemused on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew...
Author Wright, anticipating biased criticism from jealous critics, says: "They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more...
Stephen Samuel Wise, 56, Manhattan rabbi; political affairs...
...leaders to give up his summer trip into that disaffected territory lest unseemly scenes along his route cause him public embarrassment. Only crumb of comfort for the Administration and the Board: in his daily syndicated message Calvin Coolidge said: "It would certainly be fair and probably wise to defer judgment on the reported actions of the Federal Farm Board until the results are fully matured and they are in a position to reveal what they have done and why they did it. This board is so well supplied with hard-headed business experience that they are entitled to the presumption...
Doors were shut and locked. Each man took an oath of secrecy. Before anybody else could mention it, Mr. Huston himself brought up the matter of the. chairmanship. He explained that it would be wise to postpone the whole question until after adjournment of the special Senate session, lest Democrats use that chamber as a forum to discuss Republican party affairs. He lulled his critics into such a peaceful mood, that not one of them dared demand his resignation. They were left under the impression?nothing more substantial? that he would probably get out later...