Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wise Philosophy, ''I cannot better end this message on the State of the Union [a derisive roar from Republicans'] than by repeating the words of a wise philosopher* at whose feet I sat many, many years ago: " 'The human race now passes through one of its great crises. However memory brings back this moment to your minds, let it be able to say to you: That was a great moment. It was the beginning of a new era. . . . This world in its crisis called for volunteers, for men of faith in life, of patience in service...
Intimate Glimpse- Although good and wise, Haile Selassie, as recently pointed out by Dr. Sassard, his French physician of many years, has never been popular among his turbulent subjects. Every conversation the physician has had with his Imperial patient, writes Dr. Sassard, "gave me further reason to admire and respect this Sovereign, who is so different from those who surround him and from his own people, and who is so superior to them. ... In his motionless face only his eyes seem alive-brilliant, elongated, extremely expressive eyes. They bespeak boredom as well as polite indifference, cold irony, or even anger...
...seriously dismayed by several thousand dead Lolos, Generalissimo Chiang concentrated on the probabilities of Japan's policy in China for the new year. Last week he was provided with a sufficiently obvious clue. A potent Japanese advocate of moderation has been wise old Count Nobuaki Makino. As Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal for ten years, trusted adviser and old friend to Emperor Hirohito, he has frequently stood off the more rabid proposals of the militarists. He is a standard name on every Japanese patriot's list marked for assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino...
...Asked how she does this trick, Actress Hayes replied: "That's mamma's secret." *Actor Gillette, aged 80, announced last week one more farewell appearance beginning Jan. 13 in Three Wise Fools...
...three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson of the New York Sun referred this to Manager Johnson and his assistant Edward Ziegler: "These two men can run an opera house if they are allowed to. This assertion is made because it is not impossible that there may be too many cooks stirring...