Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Realizing, perhaps, that his theme wasn't quite capable of sustaining "Heartsong" through an entire evening, Mr. Laurents was wise enough to write in a part for Shirley Booth, a competent comedienne from Hartford. When she was permitted to stick to her element, Miss Booth, who can make almost any line seem funny, managed to carry the play. But when she was obliged to join in with the rest of the cast in thrashing out the problems of marriage, Miss Booth sank to the same level of purpose-lessness that here colleagues and the author had established...
Shouted President Fitzgerald: "I have seen one of the finest examples of Red-baiting here this morning!" But committee members were also wise to that one. As well as most of labor, they knew that U.E.W. had long been the C.I.O.'s biggest Communist-dominated union...
While the current high prices last, the Government plan is bound to work. But would it work if wheat fell to prewar prices? Some free-trading Canadians were sure that it would not. Then Canada might also find-as wheat-wise John Bracken, leader of the Conservatives, warned-that Canada's old customers were turning elsewhere. Some might well feel that they were not getting a fair deal under the multiple price plan...
Operating on the premise that the wise man is the man who knows how wise he really is, Wetzel plans to give IQ tests to any and all "normal, healthy extraverts," even the quiz kids...
...keep fish prices up at a time when wholesale fish prices had been falling. Having dined on pompano during the war, they did not want to go back to carp. Some fishermen had earned $10,000 or more a year on the "highliners," the few crack boats whose fish-wise captains could fill their boats to the gunwales. But most made under $5,000 a year...