His replacement was Theodore Roosevelt, a man Standard Oil had unwisely recommended as McKinley's vice-president because he was too much trouble as governor of New York.
Slightly unwisely, for this was an idea whose time had not quite yet come, Newlands called it the Law of Octaves, and likened the arrangement to the octaves of a piano keyboard.
When the British Government very unwisely allowed the Kaiser to be present at a naval review at Spithead, the thought which arose in his mind was not the one which we had intended.
At nineteen he married a rich widow fourteen years his senior, but at the outbreak of revolution in the colonies he unwisely sided with the Loyalists, for a time spying on their behalf.
Robert was furious that his position had been undermined, but instead of leaping into action immediately he decided rather unwisely to wait for the members of the royal court to expel the usurper of his throne.