Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predecessors, the "Big Broadcast," 1938 model, is a conglomeration of music, humor and specialty acts strung together by the merest phantom of a story. Hollywood's one and only William Clark Fields is sometimes funny but more often clumsy and silly as he struts about barking wise cracks and chewing his large cigar. At his best in a very unconventional game of golf, he provides the film with a few good moments; but when he is gone, there is little left. To be sure, here is a dramatized history of the waltz, which is new; but the songs by Dorothy...
...Young Conservatives," authorized by only five men to voice a platform previously drawn up by the same five men. In the name of all the conservatives in Harvard he supported the greatest threat to the University that has been passed in recent years. Thus can one publicity-wise adolescent distort student sentiment...
...generation ago, when supple, stage-wise Mary Garden performed this apotheosis of the strip tease, she brought down the house. But when the teetering Swedish soprano, Goeta Ljungberg. undertook the role at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1934, her chiffon-hung shuffling drew titters. Not only was Soprano Ljungberg a dithering dancer, she annoyed the cash customers by starting her dance costumed like a cyclone-swept handkerchief counter, finishing it fully clothed...
...rival for leadership of the West; a great talker who would start to work but waste his time telling stories and then walk home silently to a scolding wife. But he was also a local politician for whom great things had always been predicted, who was honest, picturesque, wise, extraordinary in his generosity and in his devotion to his tasks. This was the Lincoln Herndon knew, and the man he could not find in any book...
Featuring a "word to the wise" one article says, "When the moon comes up over a silvery southern sea, and you stand on the promenade in your gold formal with a big handsome thing, watching the porpoises playing around the stern of the ship--then beware, if your friend is a Harvard...