Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure citizen, and every soap dealer received an invitation reading in part: "The National Soap Sculpture Committee requests the honor of your presence at the sixth annual exhibition of small sculptures in white soap for the Procter & Gamble prizes. . . ." Well-informed citizens immediately recognized the contest as a clever advertising scheme proposed some years ago and put into execution by smart Publicist Edward L. Bernays. The idea was suggested by the quantity of soap sculptures which annually were sent to Procter & Gamble, makers of Ivory Soap, by unknown but aspiring sculptors. The exhibition last week contained nearly 5,000 pieces...
Baudelaire has been described as "a Prometheus who celebrated the vultures that plucked at his spiritual entrails" and as "a hermit of the Brothel". He has been compared to Dante, to Laforgue, to Swinburne, to Blake, and to a long, long list of other poets. But such clever descriptive phrases as those quoted above from the essays of Mr. De Casseres and Mr. Symons fail to catch the whole man, they fail just as any single attempt at comparison fails. For a true understanding of this most important of all French poets one must turn to his greatest work...
...Brothers Stock Company of Dallas, Tex., and seven years on the road for Oliver Morosco. Since he was born in Columbus, Ohio, and began to show ability for theatricals when he was ten, his friends have never been able to tell where he learned to ride. He is a clever horseman; his favorite diversions are trapping and hunting. During a period when he gave up show business because of his mother's opposition, he sold first farm machinery, then insurance, went broke running a garage. Now he has a chauffeur, a cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains, can make...
...business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect on the U. S. public as Chicago's gang-battles; they turned harmless laundrymen into homicidal maniacs from sheer contagion...
Wilbur -- "Broken Dishes". Meekness and domesticity. The clever taming of a clever shrew...