Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important things to note about John Golden's presentation of William Gillette in "Three Wise Fools" are relatively few and divertingly simple. The primary fact, of course, is that the very eminent Mr. Gillette again treads the boards with vigor and histrionic skill which have for so long made him a favorite and which are now filling the Shubert Theatre to the doors. It's rather hard, after all these years, to think of Mr. Gillette without the pipe and double peaked cap which accompanied his Sherlock Holmesing, but it appears that Mr. Gillette has versatility and can ably portray...
...Woodrow Wilson 22 years ago, passed out of legal existence. Though their terms had not expired, four members of the old Board were retired without pensions. At 67 John Jacob Thomas, a Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale drygoods trade. The two members who have sat on the Board since its first meeting in 1914 will stay on in Washington: Charles Summer Hamlin, 74, as a technical adviser to the new Board; Adolph Caspar Miller...
...Wise Men still are with us and as wonderful today As on that ancient morning by a cradle lined with hay. They hand us not the incense or the precious oils of old, But an interest in birthdays that the years have not dispelled...
...10th. Up, being troubled at my being found abed adays by all sorts of people, I having got a trick of walking the Charles too long at night with----whose discourse I love, he being a very wise and modest teacher. Then to the office to look over my agenda for the day which is as follows...
...give subtillty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion . . . ; the words of the wise and their dark sayings...