Word: acumen
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...profits on their $6,000,000 reindeer business in Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen, Mr. Newman acclimated his animals to Klaxon horns, Ford motors and shouting Eskimo youngsters while still in Alaska, coaxed them from a moss to alfalfa diet...
Marie, delegated by her countrymen to play the golddigger for Polish freedom, responded to Napoleon's assault courtship by really falling in love. First meetings however, found her at least as full of politics as passion, and for the story s sake, Marie's political acumen matched her high-minded sex appeal. Cold-blooded ugly Minister of Police Fouche alternated between trying to frame her and suggesting she marry the Emperor. Aristocratic, wily Talleyrand gave her an even worse time. Josephine counted on Marie's withdrawal when she discovered that ''one may have too much...
...chair after the recess, had told the Vice President to get the Court Bill through the Senate, his confreres did not doubt last week. Even less did they doubt that the sensational maneuver by which it had been accomplished was a single-handed display of the Garner political acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner "rodeo" tactics, gathered to congratulate him and each other. Across the chamber, Senator Guffey...
...minds a devotion to truth and the right that the country sorely needs in every branch of public service. Indeed, democracy can scarcely survive without the example and leading of such men in posts of responsibility. The whole legal profession is to be congratulated on President Conant's acumen. The appointment is nothing less than distinguished. --N.Y. Herald Tribune
...indeed a tribute to the business acumen of you students", said Cantor, speaking from the rostrum, "when you can get me to an extra show for nothing...