Word: wises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built in 1825. But today most of the inmates live in new cell blocks on the hill above the Hudson River. The sizeable cells are equipped with modern sanitary apparatus. In each is a desk and chair. At the head of each bed is a, radio headphone. Prison-wise felons would rather go "up the river" to Sing Sing than to other New York penitentiaries. Most famed Sing Sing inmate is Charles E. Chapin, onetime city editor of the New York World, serving 20 years as a wife-killer. He has charge of the prison bird house, cares for Sing...
Papa Juan, the centenarian around whom the story revolves, is a fine old man, kindly, good and wise, who has used every year of his age to the fullest and still has as keen an interest in life and as live a brain as any of his three generations of descendants. With real finesse is the character drawn. The other members of the family who one meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella...
...WISE CHILD?Pretended pregnancy is a laughing matter...
Science is always a lap ahead of popular belief. Newton and Darwin are today high priests of truth to the man in the street. Materialism, once a scientific theory, is now the fatalistic creed of thousands. But materialism, says atom-wise, germ-conscious Haldane,"is nothing better than a superstition, on the same level as a belief in witches and devils...
...Gordons were the only Negroes in White Sulphur Springs, Mont. At the Springs was a "sportin' house" Madame. Her name was Big Maude. Unlike her kind, she was not a fighter, could not beat policemen. She was genteel, of noble English descent (her story), and wise. She charged more for drinks than any of her competitors. The miners and farmers marveled at the way her four girls dressed. Big Maude asked Taylor Gordon to work for her. He agreed, ran errands for the girls, served drinks, wore brass buttons and blue coat, received good wages, liked...