Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast culture of a whole four months at college. He stood in one of those semicircular mirrors which are the best lure yet devised for selling a fellow a suit-- and he was being shown a suit. He was not being rushed into this affair, though. This gentleman was cagey, and what's more he was in the know as regards clothes...
...White House conference day later cagey News Reporter John O'Donnell jockeyed incident Roosevelt into openly denouncing the press subsidy by the Government as an "unhealthy thing." Grinning, the President suggested that the press might well campaign for repeal of the 90-year-old subsidy, originally enacted to promote distribution of newspapers and magazines, uplift educational and moral standards. In 24 hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation...
...Sphinx. About his own music Sibelius is cagey. Some have called him Sphinxlike, and he has found the description a great convenience. Nowadays, when English-speaking visitors get too inquisitive about how he composes or when his next symphony will be finished, he replies with regretful, laconic shrug: "I, Sphinx." There are grounds to suspect that he has quantities of early unpublished compositions stored about the house, that he has already outlined the movements of a Ninth Symphony in addition to those of his forthcoming Eighth. A visitor's inquisitiveness invariably brings the same Finnish shrug, the favorite, inevitable...
...practice standard in the industry. Thus a $1,000 car costs a dealer $750. Out of the $250 difference a dealer must pay his overhead and clear a profit. So far this year Buick dealers, according to Bill Hufstader, have netted twice as much money as last. Makers are cagey about mentioning dealer profits, but Buick dealers probably average about $78 net for every $1,000 in sales, not counting a 20% reserve for used car losses. With 2,000,000 Buicks now in service, Buick hopes to sell 260,000 1938 models...
...Washington Bridge, constructing a factory, laboratory and foundry big enough for 2,500 workers. One device they will make when the plant is completed next winter and for which many airlines are eagerly waiting is Pan American Airway's famed Direction Finder system, the manufacturing rights to which cagey Vincent Bendix acquired last month. A complex mechanism by far the best of its kind in the world, it works from the ground, locates a plane precisely the instant the pilot asks his position. Its range...