Word: acumen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dapper Ohioan, Nicholas Longworth, who became Speaker of the House, Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Longworth formed the friendship that is now said to be one of the strongest influences keeping Mrs. McCormick in politics. Other influences are Mrs. McCormick's unboastful estimate of her own undoubted political acumen; her experience since 1924 as Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois; and heredity. In Illinois, she will run for nomination as the protegée of well-entrenched Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, against Congressman Henry R. Rathbone who did not support Mayor Thompson in his loud "100% American" campaign last...
Significance. The facts just cited make clear that an attempt to invade Soviet Russia might be set in motion at any time by the mere fiat of Grand Duke Nikolai. At 71 he still retains the majestic presence and shrewd acumen which enabled him to carry out the masterly Russian "retreat without victory" in 1915 to new lines so well chosen that they .held against Imperial Germany for two years more...
...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...
...Charles A. Levine-an industrialist of Brooklyn. He began his business career by selling second-hand automobiles. He made several million dollars by salvaging ammunition after the War. He met his wife when she won a Brooklyn beauty contest. Something romantic in him, as well as shrewd business acumen, prompted him to affiliate himself with aviation manufacturing. The U. S. Government refused to grant him an air mail contract, criticized his record. Aviators said he was trying to commercialize a sport, when financial squabbles delayed Chamberlin's flight. Levine had to do something adventurous to vindicate himself...
...bare essentials of baseball include a bat, a ball and eighteen men. Everything else is superfluous. But, superfluous or not, a funny bone and a what may be modestly referred to as a certain degree of journalistic acumen do combine to make what would otherwise be merely another baseball game something over which to wax ecstatic, and occasion for dancing in the streets, in short, an Epocin. And when the Epoch is one of an annual series, stretching back into infinity--or thereabouts--the result approaches that which young girls loosely term an experience...