Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year is in at last, and at this festive time all the pronouncements of the clergy and of the scribes, not excluding the wise cracking of Mr. Westbrook Pegler are concentrated with considerable unanimity on the current extra-curricular activities on the Iberian peninsula. And with all the nations of the continent winning battles on the playing fields of Spain, with British battleships clearing their decks and with British statesmen expressing "concern", the Dagos are providing very sensational entertainment indeed...
...career has been as adviser to the Young Marshal, plus merely friendly relations with T. V. Soong who is the Dictator's brother-in-law, up to three years ago. He then attached himself to Chiang, while continuing to advise Chang. It was possible that at Sian wise Uncle Donald was trying to be as impartial and simply pro-Chinese as he knew how-but there are limits...
...Madison's and Wisconsin's two first citizens, living in the proudest houses in town, Governor La Follette and President Frank politely called on each other, pleasantly nodded at Badger football games. Governor Phil, worldly wise, did not share the resentment of many a rural legislator at President Frank's suavity, his well pressed clothes, the fact that he spoke with a soft cultivation belying his birthplace, Queen City, Mo. And as Phil had been the youngest U. S. Governor, so Glenn Frank had been (until Chicago's Hutchins) the youngest chief executive of a major...
...John Williams Andrews, published a well-reviewed first volume of poetry. Prelude to Icaros. Between such tasks as unearthing The Colonial Background of the American Revolution, Professor Andrews travels, is interested in contemporary British as well as early U. S. history, considers the abdication of Edward VIII a wise decision without precedent in the interests of the British Empire. No longer lecturing, working only with graduate students, popular, retiring Professor Andrews at 73 looks forward to publishing the third volume of The Colonial Period in American History next March, the fourth in 1938. Beyond that he says he can promise...
...hard to insist that Edward for the welfare of his realm must renounce his royalty. Since the beginning of time it has been sheer folly to advise a man to change his mind about marriage. But if, as it seems, a solution is not forthcoming, the only wise move is to take a lesson from Good Queen Bess, and procrastinate. As Professor McIlwain explains, the King cannot marry Mrs. Simpson till next April anyway. And if Mr. Baldwin persists in driving out the chief obstacle to his Conservatism, he will probably find that the name of a ruined king...