Word: sagely
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...Toner down," said the Sage, "and stop beating your Gumbs. You've got me Fitz to be Tighe-d and I'm going insani. Besides, B.U. will be Gannon for us and using all their Giles to Hatch a plot and Turnan a victory. You're Stowart now, but before you're Stone drunk let me Ramacorti of rye down my throat and go Dwyer than a kite by saying. Harvard...
...least of all Coach Dick Harlow, writes off a game until the final whistic. But even this cagey sage has reason to believe that his traditional November strength is in for a premature September birth. Wise money has it that Western Maryland should get its coonskin hat handed to it with a Mason-Dixon head in it while the Crimson first team is exchanging pleasantries in the showers...
...principal and contrasting figures are the French adventurer and comedy writer, Beaumarchais (he wrote The Barber of Seville), who procured arms for the Continental Army, and the 71-year-old sage, Benjamin Franklin, first Minister to France. Feuchtwanger does best at picturing Franklin's patient and crafty life in the grassy suburb of Passy, writing and printing his bagatelles of satire on his own hand press, enjoying his hot bath in a lidded tub of his own design (on which visitors could sit while he soaked), gravely carrying on his gallantries with French women and using his popularity...
...Itamarati, where he starts work every morning at 11, he has inherited the traditional policy of friendship for the U.S. It is one with which he has no quarrel. He does not share the cynicism of the unknown sage who once defined Brazil's foreign policy as "friendship with the U.S. because we have no alternative." He is as sincere in pursuing that policy as he is in his support of Pan-Americanism...
...religious sage a fool...