Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response to an inquiry from the CRIMSON, Aldrich Durant states: "University officials have felt, because of the possible danger of accidents, that it would be wise to know how prevalent was the practice of keeping firearms in dormitory rooms. The information is not yet complete, but when completed the question will be taken up with University authorities about placing a restraint upon student possession of firearms...
...lunch a Dunster and sate next who wishes I had brought the owl back with me as he is an expert in such things and would stuff him even for the Tower but I do not like stuffed things about, even wise owls. Thence all afternoon to snoop about Emerson and say many fine things to the secretary but she, very foxy, does not tell me how well my examinations I did. So I to drown my sorrow with "Desire" at the flickers: So much drivel...
...believe that Hearst as an ally of any politician is a form of political suicide," declared one of Alf Landon's supporters, wise old William Allen White of Emporia last month. "Hearst is a hitch-hiker on the Landon bandwagon. Sooner or later Landon will have to throw him off or feel Hearst's gun in his ribs. For his own good luck-the sooner the better...
...would head the incoming Popular Front Government. In a speech to his followers which sounded not unlike President Roosevelt's inaugural in 1933, he declared: "In a battle like the one in front of us now a chief is needed. He must have full power. . . . Let us be wise, but let us be bold." As to financial crisis, M. Blum declared: "It is not so serious as war, unemployment or misery." And he referred to devaluation as something "to which we always have been and to which we remain resolutely hostile...
Yesterday in the absence of both Governor Chandler and Lieut. Governor Johnson, Governor pro tern J. E. Wise, reinstated the 17,000 with a blanket reappointment...