Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political oracle, Harry Truman bows neither to man nor public-opinion poll. Last week, at his weekly press conference, the President cocked his head and assumed his wise, oracular look while the New York Times's William Lawrence asked a carefully framed question. "Mr. President," said Lawrence slowly," in General Eisenhower's book, Crusade in Europe, he quotes you as having told him in Europe that there was no position he wanted that you wouldn't help him get, and that specifically included the presidency in 1948.* I'd like to know if that applies...
...living over again the spring of 1919. The same hatreds and jealousies are all operating. I don't know whether this peace will work or not. I do know the other type is certain to fail. If you have a 100% chance of failure, I think it is wise to take a 50% chance of success." Against the 50% chance of failure, Lawyer Dulles stacked the lessons taught him by history and the lessons he had learned in church...
François Rabelais warned his readers to be careful with Gargantua and Pantogruel. "Following the dog's example," he told them, "you will have to be wise in sniffing, smelling, and estimating these fine and meaty books; swiftness in the chase and boldness in the attack are what is called for; after which, by careful reading and frequent meditation, you should break the bone and suck the substantific marrow...
...leave the country to have the necessary operation performed, presumably in Western Europe or the U.S. But with his country's Nationalists screaming that anything the West could do they could do better (including running Iran's oilfields), His Majesty decided it would be unwise politically, if wise medically, to seek relief abroad. He stayed at home and suffered. But recently the appendix got too troublesome...
Died. David Warfield, 84, U.S. matinee idol during the first quarter of the century (The Return of Peter Grimm, The Music Master, The Merchant of Venice), who through wise investments became one of the world's richest actors; after long illness; in Manhattan. Starting as a theater usher in San Francisco, he went to New York in 1889, first found work as a saloon entertainer, was later starred by famed Producer David Belasco, with whom he had a falling out in 1924, after which he quit the stage...