Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holmes's importance was of a different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with...
...situation contains many kinds of political and social dynamite. One wonders if the Negroes as a race will be wise to accept the solicitation of the Northern Democratic leaders, to change their party affiliation...
When a young man who said he was Pledge Brown from the Ketchikan (Alaska) Chronicle some months ago offered us a yarn on New Deal's Matanuska Valley as "new stuff . . . I'm full of it ... great for a Republican sheet," the Daily Courier's wise, white-haired Managing Editor E. R. Moore politely declined, later explained it didn't ring true...
Dark-maned, trumpet-voiced Stephen Samuel Wise was not in Providence's Biltmore Hotel last week to hear himself elevated to the Zionist presidency. Zionist Wise was in London, conferring with famed Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann and members of the British Government on current Arab-Jewish strife in Palestine (TIME, July 6 et ante). From London Dr. Wise sent word of his gratification, added...
...Providence the Zionists adopted a resolution demanding arms for Palestine Jews, another condemning Jewish Communists for inciting disorder in the homeland. Then they adjourned, many of them still marveling that they had managed to elect Rabbi Wise their leader. That head of Manhattan's Free Synagog has a large collection of enemies and critics, most of them Jews who dislike the American Jewish Congress, of which he is president. Dedicated to the principle of holding periodic World Jewish Congresses, the U. S. group elected delegates last month who in Geneva next month will probably elect Rabbi Wise their world...