Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles E. Coughlin boasted that he would swing 9,000,000 votes in the last Presidential campaign, but neither major party made any noticeable effort to enlist his support. When election time rolls around, the man upon whom wise political bosses count is not the howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great...
...Lord give you fruitful lands and healthful seasons; victorious fleets and armies, and a quiet Empire; a faithful Senate, wise and upright counsellors and magistrates, a loyal nobility, and a dutiful gentry; a pious and learned and useful clergy; an honest, peaceable and obedient commonalty. Amen...
...about the niceties of taking sailfish, marlin, broadbill and tuna is lofty and arcane, should welcome a new book about catching huge fish by an author who neither prates of his own prowess nor rates all other quarry as paltry beside his own.* The quarry of Colonel Hugh D. Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong as a mule and as hard to kill as a cat." They are handier...
...Colonel Wise got started shark-fishing as a boy off the Virginia Capes, when he threw a weakfish out for a big Hammerhead shark and was towed around for miles in his dory. He learned to chum for the brutes with fresh-killed fish, preferably good oily and bloody ones. He learned how to cure a hooked shark of sulking on the bottom: send a lively crab down the line to pinch his nose...
After years of observation and checking up on shark stories. Colonel Wise testifies that there is no fixed answer to the old question whether sharks will attack men. They mostly will not if they are well fed, not excited, not convinced the man is helpless. They mostly will if given a blood scent or if startled by what they think is an attack on them. And different species, of course, have different appetites. Best rule, thinks Colonel Wise, is not to trust sharks...