Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frost, drawling casually with no plan or arrangement, treated his listeners as if they were in their own living room. Saying whatever came to his mind, in the wise Vermont way that has made him one of America's greatest living poets, be described poetry as "dwelling on the parity of a fact...
Billy Rose, Broadway's squash-shaped supershowman, announced that with Shakespeare-wise Director Margaret Webster he was planning a splendiferous production of Henry VIII...
Last week Doctor I. Q. was boning up on Old Testament history, philosophy, prayer-book history and comparative religion at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The "wise man with the friendly smile and cash" was headed for the ministry. Within three years he expects to abandon his enviable $2,000-a-week radio job for a $40-a-week Episcopal rectorship in some small town in his native Kentucky...
After two years as a lieutenant general and production director for the War Department, big, grey William Signius Knudsen finally got an Army command. His new job: chief of the Army Air Forces' new combined service and materiel command, with headquarters at Patterson Field, Ohio. Production-wise General Knudsen, who started his Army career with three stars on his shoulder, will be in charge of A.A.F. research, design and procurement, supply and maintenance...
...Lear, a crack training man who was on the point of retirement for age, took over McNair's command in the interim, later took a desk job. Canadian-born Ben Lear came up from the ranks (enlisting in 1898 for the Spanish-American war). As Army-wise as a rolling caisson, Ben Lear would give uncompromising stability to the ground forces command on the home front...