Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preoccupied with the effects of World War I, vote liquor out. Liquor came in again almost 15 years later, but the W.C.T.U. was only momentarily daunted. Meeting in annual convention in Rochester, N. Y., last week, during World War II, 1,700 temperate Christian delegates heard President Ida B. Wise Smith proclaim that "there is no doubt prohibition will return-the only question is when." The W.C.T.U. wants prohibition or nothing. Says Mrs. Ella Boole, world president of W.C.T.U.: "Moderation points the way to excessive indulgence. Total abstinence closes the door. We have always been opposed to moderation...
...amid arc lights that made the Indian Legislative Assembly Hall at Simla, the summer capital, look like a film studio, six-foot Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, read to a hushed gathering a long telegram from His Majesty the King. The telegram explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain...
...ribbed "24-hour railroad man." A brief man (he answers telegraphed queries with a snappy "Yes" or "No"), he has no hobbies, no outside interests but his work. But Frank Gavin, who was G. N.'s executive V. P., knows all about his road from operations to finance. Wise to what is going on in U. S. railroading, he says the roads had better justify their existence as public servants or else...
...excited, if no less concerned, about the situation in the Faculty than it was last June. It appears, although it has never been stated to the student, that a stabilized budget is making solvent administration of this university more difficult. Certainly there can be no objection by students to wise and necessary economics. But confusion is rife among them as to exactly how they are affected by supposed economics and the educational policies underlying them. Perhaps the relations between the Administration and the Faculty are not yet of immediate concern to students, and they can watch that battlefield with remote...
...David braves old Sir Thomas Danby, his father's father, who has had no notion of his existence. The bastard's ordeal turns into an idyll. He finds himself on the Riviera, with an allowance of a thousand pounds a year, chaperoned by a worldly-wise epigrammatist, soon in bed with an authentic beauty named Diana, to whom he writes verses. War talk is just a bore at first. But that autumn is the autumn...