Word: sagely
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...neat little gallery of J. B. Neumann, chubby, sage and glowing enthusiast of 30 years' standing for "new" art, art lovers were greeted with the unusual spectacle of an exhibition composed wholly of old masters. They were, advised Dealer Neumann, "choice examples of living art, works of older periods that deserve to survive for their great vitality and imaginative appeal." In a medieval painting of St. Mark by an unknown Austrian artist, visitors could find a cubistic treatment of planes; in a fantasy by the Flemish painter Pietr Huys, Carnival Scene, were strange suspensions of rods and dangling objects...
What counsel has the hooded moon Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, Of love in ancient plenilune, Glory and stars beneath his feet- A sage that is but kith and kin With the comedian Capuchin...
...mayor of Peiping was ready to do Japan's bidding, prepared for a Gilbert-&-Sullivan ceremony in the Confucian Hall of Perfection, rounded up 80 orphans to bleat traditional Confucian music, to watch him kowtow nine times to China's sage...
...Episcopal pastors from solemnizing the marriages of divorced persons. Under the chairmanship of Michigan's grey and liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas. Three years later the commission persuaded the Church to split Canon 41 for the first time, by permitting pastors to remarry...
...late Russell Sage paid Western Union the compliment of observing that only once in a lifetime might a man hope to buy its stock below $50 a share. Until 1931 Western Union bulls used to make great play with this remark, which indeed held true for many a lifetime ended before that year. Since then there have been frequent opportunities to buy Western Union at prices well below $50. Its first 1937 dip below that price occurred fortnight ago, when, after dropping steadily from a year's high of $83.50, Western Union slid to $49.50. Last week it broke...