Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sorry! Spring came; the teacher left the village, and when she returned again, she brought along a sister and a large, protective aunt. "Ah," said the villagers with wise glances, "she has brought a chaperone. Now what will he do?" For a year Pietro did nothing. Then he approached bluntly and announced: "I have decided I want to marry you." "I am sorry," said Francesca. "It cannot be." Stupefied, the mayor went to his uncle the priest. "I don't understand," he said. "How could any girl refuse?" The old priest inhaled a vast nostrilful of snuff. "Women...
...socialists wrongly assume the right of property to be of mere human invention . . . and, preaching up the community of goods, declare that ... all may with impunity seize upon the possessions and usurp the rights of the wealthy. More wise and profitably, the Church recognizes the existence of inequality amongst...
...could never say with Shakespeare's Duke of Kent, 'I am too old to learn,' he is still alertly learning at the age of 90. For 70 of these 90 years, he has been 'a scholar and a ripe and good one; exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading...
Citation: "A wise counsellor with purity of motive, he encouraged and stimulated those who turned to him for wisdom, detachment and broadened perspective...
...pecked out another story in the People section concerning the search in the Library of Congress for an old song wanted by a Congressman? The Library of Congress system bears about the same resemblance to the Dewey decimal system as I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy bears to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Two institutions as holy as the Library of Congress and the Martini are not laughing matters...