Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teach drawing at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, belongs to the modern school in art and the old school in boxing. A praiser of the days when fighters like Benny Leonard relied on brains rather than bang, Tony Sisti planned to eke out six cagey rounds last week. Instead, he found his young and hopeful opponent open to certain applications of practical anatomy, dropped him once and knocked him out for good in 70 seconds of the first round...
Tiger Fox, a cagey Negro fighter, was 3-to-1 favorite. But Jimmy Grippo was not dismayed. In the last two years his hypnotic stare had never let him down. Before each fight he put burly, clumsy young Bettina through a ritual that was publicized as a hypnotic treatment; after each fight his protege emerged undefeated...
Teuton blood courses through many veins in the British Dominion of the Union of South Africa and, during the long-brewing international crises between Czechoslovakia and Germany, cagey Premier James Barry Munnick Hertzog has refused to commit himself for or against the Nazis. But last week, as events in Europe rolled toward war, the Premier indulged in a sudden burst of loyalty to the Mother Country, personally took to the Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will...
...committed to the principle of private ownership, private initiative and the protection of private property. The right to own and manage private property must be conceded and safeguarded. Working people must be accorded the right to organize and bargain collectively. . . . Labor and capital can cooperate. . . " Thus the cagey councilmen affirmed a co-operative policy whereby A.F. of L. already had diddled C.I.O. out of many a bargaining contract, has also caused NLRB to declare in several cases that Federation-employer cooperation was in fact collusion intended to discourage workers' affiliations with more militant C.I.O. unions...
...have made a deal with a neighbor for a subscription between us. He has first crack at it at three bucks, and I get it after he is through with it, for the remaining two bucks. In this drought area a man has to be cagey...