Word: wisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stupidity showered upon the entering Freshman in the guise of advice, surely none exceeds that of the paternally inclined well-wisher who proclaims, "My son, whatever else you may do, choose one thing and do that well." And the neophyte, being often of a serious frame of mind, that is to say of great potential value to Harvard and in a position to get much out of Harvard, usually rushes into something that he thinks he is interested in and by the end of his first and best year is thoroughly tied-down, perhaps bored, often disappointed...
...forced him down in the desert some 100 mi. from Los Angeles. Last week, his eye blazing with indignation, Pilot Post told newshawks two pounds of metal filings, emery dust and other abrasive foreign matter had been found in his engine, had ostensibly been put there by an ill-wisher...
...London meanwhile his great good wisher News Pundit Walter Lippmann was publicly giving him this free advice: "The Conference Should Adjourn. . . . The essential facts are quite clear. The United States will not stabilize its currency until a sufficient rise in prices has been achieved. The gold countries will not consider a, devaluation of their currencies or an inflationary policy. The British Government are unable to take a decisive position. . . . To safeguard his [domestic] program the President has wisely rejected all proposals which would interfere with it. He has not been afraid to deadlock the Conference. Why should he be afraid...
...Bennington College, an institution to release promising young women from strict curricular bondage, began to be realities last week. In the ancient, green-hilled Vermont town of Bennington, famed for its historic white homesteads and its annual production of 500,000 Kiddie-Kars, gathered many a distinguished well-wisher for the ground-breaking exercises. Robert Devore Leigh, 40, onetime Williams professor, president of the new college, led the ceremony. The audience eyed him appraisingly, a pink-cheeked, bespectacled scholar who is expected to infuse Bennington with the same stirring liberalism he had shown at Williams. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Vermont novelist...
...Schwab, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said those words last week at a Manhattan meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, his auditors were not greatly startled. Though they knew "Charley" Schwab for the most unregenerate optimist in U. S. Industry, a notorious backslapper, hand shaker and well wisher, they also knew that what he said really did reflect the modern concept of business in dealing with critical economic upheavals and serious unemployment...