Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, Governor of the Gold Coast and a wise old Africa hand, took the gamble of his career. The governor had put Nkrumah in jail; now he let him out and appointed him Leader of Government Business, with most of the powers of a Prime Minister. Whitehall approved, but the Director of Gold Coast Prisons emphatically did not. "I am not prepared to take orders from one of my former inmates," he snapped, and resigned in a huff...
...palace with 500 virgins as serving maids and retinues of up to 10,000. Kublai also maintained 10,000 spotlessly white mares for the production of his favorite tipple, fermented mare's milk (kumiss). Twice a year the country was scoured for concubines. Yet Kublai Khan was a wise ruler who brought un paralleled prosperity to China...
...traditionalist he probably would now be the best known and most prosperous lawyer in mid-Michigan. George was born in 1890 in Cheboygan and raised in Saginaw, where his father, Watts Humphrey, was a hearty, roaring trial lawyer with an excellent practice. His mother, a former schoolteacher, was a wise and gentle parent and a political diehard (all through the New Deal she spelled Roosevelt with a small...
...lately there were just not enough taxpayers to support the administration and the garrison. Still, it was possible to milk the rich merchants and keep things going, always exempting one's friends and relations, of course-notably the Senator Gratianus, whose pretty daughter, Maria, Felix had thought it wise to marry. Still, these were just the routine troubles of dominion...
...taking over the great house this month, Mrs. Eisenhower will be assisted by a present complement of 64 (full staff: 72) servants, most of them old retainers, wise in the ways of Washington. If she abandons her lifelong zeal for running a house and never voices a command,, the house will run well. But if she wants to order every meal, redecorate any or all of 35 upstairs rooms (her favorite colors: rose and pale green), shift Lincoln's famed 7-ft. bed, or plant geraniums in the bathtubs, she has every right...