Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only an adroit photographer can snap lean Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain in such wise as to make it seem that he might have a paunch (see cut), but the same is not true of John Bull and last week His Majesty's Government launched an enormously costly campaign to make currently flabby Britons fit. To establish more playing fields and pay the wages of gymnastic instructors. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, who seems as lean as the Prime Minister but unlike him distinctly more pink-faced, has budgeted this year about $12,500,000. Mr. Chamberlain...
Dictators Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler lead the world in making millions of young people take healthful exercise whether they want to or not. but Neville Chamberlain was too wise to ask his British audience to look with admiration on the bronzed, athletic youth of any place except Scandinavia. "I am afraid," cried tentative Orator Chamberlain, "that in this matter [physical culture] some other nations, and especially Scandinavians, have got ahead of us, but I am confident we shan't be long in making up for lost time! ... I appeal for a concentrated and determined crusade against ignorance, carelessness...
...does seem that different individuals have different codes of morality or ethics or the art of living, call it what you will. And anybody who does not know the ideals of the men whom he is dealing with, whether it be in business or pleasure, should be wise enough not to budge from the conventional modes of address and conduct until he has assured himself that he will not give offence...
...also very nearly a great crook appeared before his 75th birthday. In 1934 two younger British book experts, John Carter and Graham Pollard, published a book with the innocuous title, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. It was a devastating investigation of an authoritative Wise catalog, proved up to the hilt that Thomas James Wise had for at least twelve years invented pedigrees for worthless books and pamphlets, passed off forgeries as genuine. Oldster Wise tried to bluster it out, finally retired in silence to his Hampstead house, lived secluded there until his death last...
Forger or not, old Thomas Wise had done England more good than harm. His 7,000-volume library, whose catalog alone fills eleven large quartos, was offered to the nation at a price considerably less than its assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition...