Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thence, back to the Tower and to muse awhile in the full moonlight: Was it not Anatole France who said; Be happy. We learn only as we amuse ourselves? So I with my gramaphone to get wise and doze myself to sleep...
Dick Gilder, leading under-graduate political sage and sworn foe of the Roosevelt Administration has two grand wise-cracks to tickle the ears of his Republican bosses with when he becomes a brass-hat in the G.O.P. propaganda offices in Washington this summer. Best: "...Since God must be somewhere behind the New Deal, it's his way of avenging the South for the 'Reconstruction' period". In addition: "...Good sports in the Republican ranks say it's got to be taken; it's just retribution for Warren Harding...
...occasion the tip of a unicorn horn was administered to a dying Pope (TIME, Feb. 25, 1935). Unicorns are described in legends far back into the mists of antiquity. Many men boasted of having seen the creature. All agreed that he was a proud and mighty beast, too wise and fleet to let himself be caught, and that a single fine sharp horn grew from his forehead. In the Middle Ages it was believed that if a unicorn saw a virgin he would approach gently, lay his head...
That, with wise direction, he can achieve something beyond the manly muteness on which his reputation as an actor has hitherto reposed, Gary Cooper recently proved in the Frank Borzage-Ernst Lubitsch Desire. Herein he gives further evidence of a sense of humor, thereby helps its authors and an expert cast make Mr. Deeds Goes to Town altogether worthwhile entertainment...
...American Provident Society in Manhattan. Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur observed: "The gopher is, par excellence, a saving animal. He stores seeds and leaves in the ground. Perhaps we should consider the gopher and be wise...