Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what you're taught; it's what you learn." Jerome Weidman went to an East Side public school, thought his classmates "a pretty decent bunch." Meeting them again ten years later, he wondered "what had turned the kids I'd played with into these sharp little wise guys . . . what had happened to Kipling?" I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Author Weidman's first novel, partly answers his question. The East Side Jews he writes about with such authority are almost enough to tie an old-fashioned U. S. stomach into Nazi knots. Manhattanites who brush...
KEITH BOSTON--Two wise Maids and As Good as Married. Former terrible, latter fairly amusing...
...Penny Wise (by Jean Ferguson Black; Juliana Morgan, producer) belongs to a trivial and pleasant species of growth which, like grape hyacinth, hepatica and the dogtooth violet, crops up in southern New York State spring after spring. This particular specimen of a vernal theatrical perennial is concerned with the clever wife
...able to present the required blend of boyish and goatish behavior even though in the throes of somnambulism. Linda Watkins (June Moon) is equally adept at impersonating the girl whose shrewdness is masked by wide-open eyes and naive questions. Between them, they should manage to keep Penny Wise on the boards well into the peony season...
...that the opportunities were limited and, at 40 was about to start afresh in the mortgage business in St. Paul. Joseph Schaffner always said the Hart boys were "wizards' but the rise of Hart Schaffner & Marx tc its present status as a national institution is generally credited to wise, scholarly Mr. Schaffner...