Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy indulgence" by Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. increased from 17.6% in the year ending April...
...speedy Joe Batchelder, the clever Green quintet ran rings around the sloppy, bewildered Feslermen. Both teams were evenly matched the entire first half, with Dartmouth leading...
...Clever Dummy" by Sennett is next on the program. The last presentation, "A Fool There Was", by Powell, is notable for having given the word "Vamp" to the English language...
...court and when he is offered the district attorney's job. This lands him in both marital and legal hot water which reaches the boiling point in the inevitable courtroom finale. Portraying four other court battles as well, Criminal Lawyer obtains its only tinge of interest from the clever cross-questioning tactics of Lawyer Brandon...
Faced by Skiddy Von Stade's eight goals and abetted by a pony's clever footwork Harvard's best Varsity polo team in more than a decade swept to a 17 1-2 to 14 victory over the Governor's House Guard officers at the Cavalry Armory in West Hartford Saturday night...