Word: sagely
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...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la," chanted the Sage of the Age, using his ancestors' five-note scale. Hu Flung Huey ocC reported on the banks of the Charles, blinking wisely in the warm...
...best personified by Bill Hart) gave way to the more folksy, even mildly urbane type. Gene and Roy Rogers, like their prototypes, turn up in time's nick to liquidate wrongdoers and still ride fast to get there, but they are never the grim-lipped supermen of the sage wastes-just neighbors down the road...
...their straw-and-mud shantytowns, in the hong (company) sheds where they rent their vehicles, in cheap teahouses from Chungking to Peiping, the ricksha men shook their heads over the prospect. Ai-ya! Ai-ya! Truly, as the Sage had written, "it is difficult to be poor and not grumble." What now would become of them...
...From the early days of the Soviet Union's precarious fight for survival down to the latter days of its expansive glory, the "little father of the peasants" had dispensed friendly fatherliness and earthy philosophy. Now, with his eyesight almost gone, he was happy to quit. The shriveled sage with the oldfashioned, tip-tufted beard had the distinction of being one of the few top-ranking Old Bolsheviks to be removed from office merely...
...Little Koo of China, slight Van Kleffens of The Netherlands, playing the keenest minds there upon all that passed, and at times doing their sage best to quiet the storm when storming had done its turn...