Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HENRY KNOX SHERRILL: DOCTOR OF DIVINITY, of Boston, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Massachusetts since 1930. "A modern bishop of that ancient church our dissenting founders sought to change, a beloved leader of his faith, a wise counsellor to those of many creeds...
...know it be a good proverb that the study of man be the candle of the Lord. And I was also glad to hear come from the President the value of character building in education; for I know, though this be a difficult and drippy subject, yet no wise man will doubt that learning without gentlemaness is a great failure. Yet I know this is one of the greatest failings of our entire educational system. Bless my soul, already ther are too many stuffy encyclopaedias without a warm thought...
...colleges spread themselves this year to salute with honorary degrees the wise, the rich and the merely acquiescent, the nation's oldest and most famed university last week plumped squarely for the wise. To Cambridge, Mass, for the culmination- of its 300th anniversary celebration in September, Harvard invited 66 top-flight pundits, so carefully hand-picked by President James Bryant Conant and his faculty that they furnished an international Who's Who of scholarship...
...given in her honor; the gun, going off in her shaking hands, shatters a vase, knocks the cap off a musician's head, breaks a globe in the chandelier; a colonel of the Sixth Lancers, full of cocktails, duplicates these feats, shoots down the chandelier to boot. Three Wise Guys (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another one from the private dream world of Damon Runyon. A hard-boiled restatement of the Nativity story, it presents a trio of crooks whose female front (Betty Furness) falls in love with a rich man's son (Robert Young) whom they intend...
...Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out before it is too late." Dr. Bloodgood believed with many another wise cancer specialist that it is worth scaring the wits out of 999 people in order to save the thousandth man from death by cancer...