Word: wises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curb officials were unmoved by Mr. Dyer's plight. They thought they smelled some kind of Prohibition plot. Mostly they marveled that one so wise as the Number Two Man of the nation's great House Judiciary Committee, and a Man from Missouri at that, should have speculated ignorantly upon the Curb, and gotten pinked...
...Boston jury for selling a copy of "An American Tragedy" to a policeman, the nation's "bad boys" gathered for a Ford Hall Forum banquet to sink the Hub into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
...little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools...
...came a hunter. Through the leaves he sighted a sleek black form. Game. He shot. A screech, not animal, and out of the branches flopped a Negress, dead, naked, devoid of tribal tattoos. Apparently apes had reared her from infancy. Clumsily she had learned to climb, to sleep hammock-wise across two stout branches, to eat fruits, to jabber, to live their life...
...plains." But in 1914 Ford caught the public, that is the journalistic imagination, by his announcement of a $5 minimum daily wage for labor that claimed only $1 or $1.50 elsewhere. From then on he provided periodic newspaper headlines. In quick succession came the campaign against the "Wise Men of Zion" and the voyage of the "Peace Ship"-two ventures which had little to do with the turn-outs of one million cars by 1915, five million by 1922. And with the ten millionth, Ford turned incongruously collector of antiques, patron of country dancing, defender of an earlier civilization...