Word: sagely
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...Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area now contains 9,000,000 people, will in 40 years carry twice as many. The Russell Sage Foundation in Manhattan has been making a study towards this same...
...have sought through him to sway the course of Spain. There was, for example, very recently, the Marquise de Arguelles. Perhaps it is well that her somewhat sinister influence will be supplanted by that of the Orphan & Spinster-who is one of the richest women in Spain, and accounted sage with the wisdom that comes from managing large monetary affairs...
...gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City, of the American Federation of Arts, of the Survey Associates, of the National Housing Association, of the Charity Organization Society. The New York Times called him "Captain of Philanthropy" and the New York Sun called him "First Citizen of the First City...
...Louisville, Ky. Times made a sage remark: "It is said that the cigaret is the first thing in the United States to reach the 100,000,000,000 mark. How about the matches that lighted them...
...Uncle Alf. In the greatest fox hunt the state has ever known, Tennessee honored its beloved old sportsman and one time (1920-22) governor, Alfred Alexander Taylor. And up in the rugged foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the northeastern tongue of Tennessee, the rugged 80-year-old "Sage of Happy Valley" played jovial host to the folk who had finally elected him their chief only eight years before...