Word: proverb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Burlington, Vt., where his father kept a general store displaying a sign: "Ham and Segars, Smoked and Un-smoked," John Dewey raised Yankee common sense to the status of a full-fledged philosophical system. Essence of his philosophy is indicated in the proverb: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Truth, to John Dewey, is not fixed or absolute, changes as conditions change. And he believes that the highest virtue is intelligence, that intelligence means resolving a problem with the answer that 1) is most workable, 2) makes the most people happy. Moral basis...
...Captain Vigoroux, famed in cigaret ads. Two tales, one about a dachshund, another about a Nazi dissenter who invented a seventh-class funeral, are not only funny but belong with the best satire yet written on dictators. In a story about a cobbler who belied the old proverb, Bemelmans combines entertainment for all members of the family...
...second Governor Long on his first day in office put flowers on the grave of Brother Huey. Earl Long also conferred with New Orleans' Boss & Mayor Robert S. Maestri, who is the most potent politician left in Louisiana. For his motto Earl Long picked up a Biblical proverb: "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right...
...Proverb Concerning the Bird that Fouls Its Own Nest...
...When the democracies accuse us of lack of political morality, it is because they have history behind them while we stand before ours-and youth is usually more immoral than old age. An old proverb says that the worst prostitutes become the most devout deaconesses in old age-and it is the same way in politics...