Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope the South Carolina General Assembly will act to influence the court by providing schools substantially equal for both white and Negro pupils. We should do it because it is right and also because it is wise in view of the suit...
Though this plot idea leads conveniently to some amusing complications, it is a lot to ask an audience to swallow, even with Actress Ritter to make it palatable. Bravely insouciant, cracking wise until she finally cracks the whip, she dotes too much on her son to expose his shame, goes about instead captivating his bride and his boss (Larry Keating) and foiling the mean schemes of the boss's playboy son (James Lorimer). At times, the story pushes her role uncomfortably close to Stella Dallas; even then, she indicates that, properly used, she has a talent for pathos...
...time, the pitchers come into throw them up to the rapidly sharpening batting eyes of wise-cracking veterans although some are none too sure of their obs) and eager new candidates. Stuffy lovers over it all. "Keep the ball away from the pitcher," he calls to a batter. "Hit it to the left or right." The nervous man at the plate drills a fast one straight at the mound and the pitcher dives for the ground. The coach wipes his forehead and mutters, "Dirty practice balls are very hard to see." With Ira Godin, last year's mound star, graduated...
...right now the wise student should wait, if at all possible, before signing any blank with a service emblem on the top. The wise poker player holds his bet until the dealer has finished shuffling the cards...
...that he will not act until Congress finishes its draft bills and sends them to the White House. His delay would be partly out of courtesy to the legislators, partly pure political acumen: to defer men while Congress is still debating the necessity of drafting them would hardly be wise...