Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Which includes New Orleans' Maison Blanche, Memphis' B. Lowenstein & Bros., Birmingham's Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, Louisville's Kaufman-Straus, Miami's Richard Store, Philadelphia's Lit Bros., Trenton's Swern's Store, Hartford's Wise, Smith's, Boston's R. H. White, and the Oppenheim, Collins & Co. chain with branches in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Buffalo, White Plains and Garden City, N.Y., East Orange and Morristown, N.J., and Philadelphia...
...Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English-French population...
...Schwiefka's gambling joint, he dealt cards with the impersonal fairness and nerveless accuracy of a machine. "Frankie Machine," the Division Street punks called him, or just Dealer. "That's me," he'd brag, "the kid with the golden arm . . . When I go after a wise guy I don't care...
...Southern bloc's assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...
...matter how fast it grows, quick-stepping, penny-wise Otto Schnering, 57, will keep pace with it. As a boy, he spent his summers on his father's fatrm near Detroit, and hoped to become a farmer too. But after graduation from the University of Chicago, he wanted to get married, so he got a job in a bank...