Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dull parents are as likely to produce potentially bright children as are clever parents...
...however, the No. 1 U. S. industry appeared ready to resume its leadership. With automobile production for the week jumping from 45,000 to 62,000 units (88,000 year ago), President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors made front-page news across the nation and inspired a clever cartoon by announcing that G. M. was rehiring 35,000 men, restoring the 10% to 30% pay cuts of last February. This meant an annual boost to G. M.'s payroll of $55,000,000 with an other boost of $60,000,000 likely as other workers are returned...
Moreover, the author is clever enough to leave out the mass of facts that burden down the usual narrative, and by her subjective approach produces a series of vivid sketches. The first one, concerning her stay at one of the Cape Verde Islands where the wind blew forever and time meant nothing, is an artistic triumph, and at times comes very close to being poetry. it is beautiful prose, natural, rhythmic, and expressive...
...lighting, which were designed by Perry Watkins of the New York division of the F. T. P. and display genuine artistry. Mr. Watkins has not only constructed a very plausible French colonial interior, but has achieved striking effects by the use of shutters on French windows and the clever lighting of a drop behind them...
...film which opened yesterday at the University is the definitive portrait of the public's conception of the screen capital. It is noisy (because it has to he), clever and thoroughly amusing throughout...