Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remunerative angina" results when the patient gets a reward for his illness. It may be only emotional-sympathy and pampering. Or it can be hard cash from insurance. (This form is becoming less common now that the companies have got wise and refuse...
...girls, three comedians) flew to Chicago from Las Vegas' swank Dunes Hotel to put on one performance for 1,200 conventioneers from the National Homebuilders Association. Said one homebuilder: "This is exactly the sort of thing this industry needs. We're too stodgy." ¶ Jingly, gutter-wise Threepenny Opera passed its 1,405th performance, became New York's third longest running musical, behind Oklahoma! (2,248) and South Pacific (1,925). Gross of the 229-seat Theater de Lys totals $1,250,000 -more than the combined take of the other top 18 off-Broadway shows...
Washington figures wise in the ways of newsmen are the most polished practitioners of the TV headline art. Ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck first admitted his curious loans from the union on CBS's Face the Nation, thereby softening the effect when the loans were brought up later by the Senate's McClellan committee. It was on ABC's College News Conference that Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler announced that Southern segregationists might be forced out of the party...
...built on the site formerly occupied by Memorial Church). They will hear the lecturettes; they will sit in on the think sessions and RH-29-X meetings; they will be happy in their own inner-directed, typical way. Bronson will take the 11:48 home, sad but wise, and enroll in some third-rate community junior college...
...entries ranged from Irving Berlin's "best wishes" and signature on an other wise white page (price: $500) to a fifth-of-a-page, rear-end view of Actress Shirley MacLaine...