Word: acumen
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...wonder how Mr. Anderson feels about his remarks now. Am inclined to doubt his later explanation, "satire" . . . for, as a purveyor of satire, Mr. Anderson is a seer of note. If Mr. Anderson will kindly give our patriotic Americans another look into the necessities of the future with the acumen of above date, I am sure it will be gratefully received...
...this spring from a bout of $3,000-a-week screenwriting in Hollywood, settled down to scientific agriculture. Night in Bombay is a full-blown example of meretricious fiction, conditioned almost to the point of innocence by long practice in commercial writing, displaying at every critical point the artistic acumen of a flashy sophomore. Novelist Bromfield is famed for his "characters"; Night in Bombay'?, are so weakly conceived that they not only lack inner consistency but sometimes waver in their physique (e.g., sinister Mr. Botlivala's hands are "very long and thin and very collapsible" on page...
...still preparing to become King of Sweden. During the King's vacations Gustafus Adolfus has taken over his duties and his Ministers have found little difference between father & son. Not quite so tall, not quite so spare as Gustaf, his son has all his political acumen, all his popularity. It used to be said in Sweden that if the country became a republic, Gustafus Adolfus would be elected President...
Victor. Nobody believed that the popularity or political acumen of Sam Houston Jones, 42, accounted for the victory. Five months ago Sam Jones was known only as a moderately prosperous Lake Charles attorney. He comes from that stretch of Southwest Louisiana that is more akin to Texas than to the Old South, where the French-speaking Acadian country of the bayous, live-oaks, sugar & rice plantations, shades off into oil and cattle country...
With the hard acumen which made him a multimillionaire, Bob Maestri still ran New Orleans last week, and what was left of his State organization. And Louisianans still wondered how long he would be immune. Assistant U. S. Attorney General Oetje John Rogge had his eye on Mr. Maestri and his sources of income. In addition to being the biggest realty owner in New Orleans, Boss Maestri was a part owner of an oil company. From July 1935 to August 1936, Mr. Maestri was also the State official in charge of regulating Louisiana oil production. One of his imprisoned henchmen...