Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means and are well pleased if any foreigners do not. Habsburg supporters of Archduke Otto were at first wild with fury last week, taking the Pact to mean that their candidate will not be restored as Emperor of Austria for 25 years. Then some of them took to looking wise and asking mysteriously: "Or does it not mean something else, perhaps the opposite...
...refer to Morris Rothenberg. . . ." At that name, 2.000 Jews in Providence, R. I. one day last week leaped to their feet cheering. Then they heard another name. ". . . Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. . . ." Soon thereafter the delegates to the 39th annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America elected Rabbi Wise their president for the next two years; created a new post, that of chairman of the administrative committee, for Morris Rothenberg, Manhattan lawyer and outgoing Zionist president. Thus did U. S. Zionism compose its differences to present a united front against practical threats to their dream of a Jewish homeland...
...until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything, and if the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing that I was right would make no difference.' And that is a very profound and wise observation from a very great...
After thus expressing herself recently, Madame La Marquise added, "I think if they are going to tax the large fortunes again it would be wise to free the castles of their taxes, for these beautiful chateaux of our old families are national treasures. . . . My own philosophy is simple. I wish that everyone might be happy...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN: DOCTOR OF LETTERS, of Cambridge, England, Regins Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University since 1927. "An English historian whose wise reinterpretation of the family history delights and instructs the Anglo-Saxon cousins on this side of the Atlantic...