Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little man from Toledo breasts the big winds blandly, a smile on his face and an endless stream of wisecracks, wise sayings and smart answers on his lips. He arrived in Washington with a typical quip...
Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville, separated from wife No. 8, vowed his next would be "a wise, mature woman, someone like Ava Gardner, or Paulette Goddard." Meanwhile, Manville said he was using his spare time planning a new question & answer television show on the problems of modern living...
Still walking his daily mile across a Princeton meadow to the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein quietly approached his 72nd birthday. Looking more than ever like a benign, wise old sea lion, he was too busy working on new problems to take much note of the churning outside world which he has helped to change so much...
Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh" ("A wise, sad, and witty book...
Harry Matthews of Seattle has been knocking over the hambos of the middleweight and light-heavyweight divisions for eight years, but the wise boys just asked, "Who'd he ever beat?" Matthews had fought most of his 87 fights on the West Coast (and won 55 by knockouts), had never in his life been matched into Madison Square Garden. Last week, against a slugging left-hander named Bob Murphy, distinctly no hambo, he made his Garden debut. Murphy and the skeptical East Coast found out about Harry Matthews...