Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital, demanded to know what had happened to the Lower Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought he had found a good demonstration of an old powerman's axiom: That power generation and flood control are conflicting purposes, because an empty dam cannot run generators...
Columnist Broun, fonder of Socialists than of socialites, at once cracked wise & down on Beebe, Peabody, and Groton, in his column It Seems to Me in the New York World-Telegram: "It may be held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys...
...Charles Jaynes Jr. was in the act of marrying the young couple. The ceremony performed, he ordered the groom to "kiss the bride." Then he added in fine fatuous style: "Come around tomorrow night. I think you'll find the sermon interesting. It is on the five wise and five foolish virgins...
Shall birds and bees and ants be wise...
...Embree added that to be a judge of good whiskey "implies good taste all along the line." Said he: "An educated man-a judge of good whiskey-will realize the abysmal gap between swinish drunkenness and that mellowness and expansion of personality which the wise men of the ages have appreciated as the gift of the grape...