Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned that Governor Hurley had spent most of the week at the bedside of his 8-year-old daughter, ill at the Hurley summer home in Hull, Mass. He wired: "Having a daughter and granddaughter of my own . . . I can sympathize with you. May the spirit of the all-wise Creator comfort you in your trouble...
Having closed its doors without losing its backers' shirts, Chicago's two-year (1933-34) $48,000,000 Century of Progress Exposition further astonished wise-acres few months ago by closing its books with a $241,000 surplus. As any profits were by terms of the charter to be divided among certain worthy institutions,* the Exposition then filed a friendly suit in Superior Court to flush out any forgotten creditors and obtain clear title to the funds...
...effective. Then he gesticulated, brought his face nearer to his interlocutor and spat slightly as he became emphatic. Finally he would wipe himself up so to speak and become suddenly immobile again, with his face interrogative and a little askew." . . . "No one could be so learned and wise and clever as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is certified to be by practically all the universities in the world. It's too much." And he can still clap down the nutshell on the elusive generality-this one is Life: "Dusty grayish events with a lot of rather forced laughter and streaks...
...Wong, a mandarin of much potency and some parts, was considerably dismayed when he awoke one morning to find his pigtail gone. A hastily-convened assembly of wise men was not much help, passed the buck to a soothsayer. This worthy declared that within three days a mendicant would appear at the city gates who would make all clear. In due time the mendicant appeared, turned out to be a professional expresser of public apologies and an old drunk into the bargain. Luckily for himself he had with him his granddaughter, Hwa-che, who knew all about solving crimes from...
...mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...