Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's foreign-aid program with so much persuasiveness that committeemen. already impressed with Ike's speech of the night before, gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
...Unlike most sourdoughs, he sank his profits into land investments instead of boozy sprees. Other Alaskans thought he was crazy to pay hard-earned money for wasteland around Fairbanks, but as the mining camp grew into a bustling city, Stepovich grew rich, became known all over the territory as "Wise Mike...
Last week the U.S. Senate confirmed President Eisenhower's appointment of the late Wise Mike's son as Governor of Alaska. When he takes office within the next few weeks, Michael A. Stepovich will set three records among Alaska governors: youngest (38), first native Alaskan, and first Roman Catholic...
...Almost as if they had just been discovered, suggestions for the fulfillment of the Houses have proliferated monthly. Speculators have suggested that faculty offices be put in the Houses, that sections be held there, that graduate students be drawn into the System--in short, that the University become House-wise. With the new House in the planning we find ourselves tempted to add yet another proposal to the heap: why not design several suites which would accomodate married tutors...
Cohan's own words and music and a show-wise script by Sam and Bella (Kiss Me, Kate) Spewack pleasantly evoked the furbelows and gimcracks of a theatrical era in which Cohan wrote shows called Little Johnny Jones and Little Nelly Kelly, and singers stretched "baby" to "ba-ay-ay-ay-bee." Rooney evoked Rooney. But if the tumultuous Rooney was not the debonair Cohan, he was still a sliver off the same shank, and great fun to watch as an outrageously brash song-and-dance man taking a reluctant theater by storm. At 36, Rooney is thin...