Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk by opening a saloon, vents her disgust on a pious daughter-in-law by spoiling her grandson Tjerk. Best part of the story pictures Tjerk's rebellious boyhood, his adventures with his grandmother, the hell-raising activities of his brothers, family quarrels...
Although Saint Paul claimed that charity was the greatest of all virtues, such a wise man as he would never approve of providing charity where it did not belong. Encouraging people, most of whom are human waste, to make their living by panhandling is not virtuous; indeed, it is destructive and therefore evil. In view of the Harvard man's sophistication and supposed intelligence, it is ridiculous that he be regarded by professional beggars in this neighborhood as being the biggest sucker. Will you begin your career here by becoming the dupe of trained sympathy-provokers...
Unfortunately, men with good intentions (like Mr. Roosevelt) are not always wise, and smart men (like some other politicians) are not always good, and so some narrow-minded cranks like myself still cling with great longing to the liberty for which our fathers died, the God-given right to make a fool of ourselves our own way, instead of Roosevelt...
Last week Philosopher Joad joined several other philosophers, sociologists, politicians and job-lot thinkers in proposing that somebody stop science. Though typically visionary, the Joad proposal was specific: let a board of wise men be created with powers to grant or refuse permits on inventions which affect human living...
...Bulgarians! The war clauses no longer exist. This great success is due to the wise leadership of Tsar Boris III who has accomplished it in the proper way, at the proper time. Long live the Tsar! Long live Bulgaria...