Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doughty General Agustin Justo, President of Argentina, has long been running this Republic in a manner smacking of Dictatorship. While still acting as Foreign Minister, Dr. Saavedra Lamas expects soon to retire. Not being in sympathy with Dictatorship, he gave the Monroe Doctrine a clever new twist, managed to make a speech which created a Latin-American sensation and which hardly could have been delivered in General Justo's Argentina had it been less clever...
...nights before the bar boy had done a clever pencil sketch of Henrietta, and she had had a chance to study his face as he sketched. Business was slow that night and later she had gone upstairs to borrow something to read from one of the other girls. In a detective magazine she had seen a picture of 29-year-old Robert Irwin, former insane asylum inmate, sculptor of sorts, wanted in Manhattan for the horrible Easter Sunday murders of the beauteous artists' model Veronica Gedeon. her mother and a man lodger. "Why that looks like...
...Wartime Prime Minister at Neville Chamberlain. "The Prime Minister says we must have cool heads. Yes, but I say we must also have stout hearts! Our great failure in the last four or five years has been that our hearts have failed us. The dictators of Europe are very clever men, daring men, astute men. They are taking, at the present moment, a rather low view of the intelligence and courage of ourselves. I wish to God I could...
Twenty years ago Louis Golding was an orchidaceous Oxonian. After "going down" from the University he began to write novels that were so showily finespun, so self-consciously clever that they irritated many a reader. From there he went on to heavier chronicles of Jewish family life. His twelfth novel shows a further development: The Dance Goes On is almost a pure adventure story. Critics were sure this was a comedown, but common readers felt it was a decided improvement...
...captivate a girleen," Byron continued in a raptured voice, "one must be really clever. He would do best, perhaps, to follow my few primitive rules. As a "locus operandi" take, for instance, the Charles: an excellent feeding ground. The first trick should be the undulation of the hand, the wink of the old eye, and a broad smile. If you walk the whole length of the bank and repeat these motions without any recognition, immediately change to the "information" method; approach a lass and ask her the whereabouts of Hunt Hall or the Union. That failing, borrow your roommate...