Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holm; Billy simmered for a few days, then went back for a second look. This time, he reported with satisfaction, the capacity audience wasn't finding nearly so much to laugh at. "Opening night yaks were being greeted by yawns." Billy's diagnosis: "On opening night, the wise-guy audience laughed fit to bust, either because it was hep to Hart's lilliputian libels, or because it wanted the fellow in the next seat to think it was. But the average gent and his missus are evidently more interested in laughter . . . Light Up the Sky comes through...
Such a step would be wise. In the last few years the Redbook has lost money for lack of good advertising in its pages, and comparatively low sale of copies. Moreover, the Redbook all but duplicates the freshman Register. The Register, published in the middle of the freshman year, contains the pictures and biographies of Class members, as well as coverage of Class activities to date. The Redbook contains almost exactly the same material, with the exception that its accounts of freshman activities cover the entire year. One may point cut, however, that the Class Album does this adequately...
...Last year's winter prediction, "white, long and cold," was right for the northeastern U.S. And on 22 "weather highlights" of 1947, Weather-wise claimed he called the turn 50% of the time, the Weather Bureau only...
During the day our bird sits still and digests the night's bill of fare. Every hour he opens his eyes to watch the students walking by between classes. He's not unusually conceited for an owl, but he can't help thinking that they're not so wise as he is. Why don't they get rid of a few of the duller professors, in keeping with God's Law of course, just to see what would happen...
...Radcliffe freshman look much. . . No! There are some thoughts that even an own dare not think. But it's all so tempting, because anything he does is okay and part of the ASPCA's balance of nature. Surely it doesn't apply only to owls, muses the wise one. People are the ones who make the rules, and they are like owls, only not so wise. If they believe that what is goes, perhaps they live that way themselves. A pleasant world for a bird of prey...