Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wife Elizabeth McDuffie, longtime Roosevelt cook, was three weeks ago hired by publicity-wise Selznick International Pictures to act in their forthcoming Gone With The Wind...
...Jesuit-trained Chancellor Schuschnigg, on returning to Vienna from Budapest last week, ingeniously straddled: "Like all human enterprises, the League of Nations has in no wise fulfilled its initial aims. We consider it our right and duty to try to bring new life to the great old League. . . . We have never doubted that the Rome Protocols are our best orientation. . . . An anti-Communist pact long has been a practical reality for Austria and Hungary...
...neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom.'. . . Our Constitution foresees the possibility of that situation-a deputy who has begun to kick. . . . The Government must organize new elections in a case like that. . . . If they have gone astray, get rid of them!" Russian wise-acres estimated that it would take about 24 hours for Mr. Stalin to "organize" the recall of any deputy who kicked...
...Octave: the eight days over which an important Catholic feast is celebrated. Epiphany (January 6) commemorates the visit of the Wise Men to the Infant Christ...
...medicine that is good for you may put me to bed, although you may be trying to render me a friendly service by offering me a cure--your cure--for my troubles. If you are wise, you will probably ask your doctor whether or not he would prescribe the remedy in question...