Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recording of President Eliot's speech in praise of Dr. Asa Grey is one of those things like a woman's being clever or a dog's standing on its hind legs: it isn't done well, but you're surprised and gratified to see it done at all. And then the glimpses of Harvard scenery, in the Tercentenary film itself and also in a short tribute by Pathe, are a revelation and a delight. Some of the vistas are so artistic that you won't be able to recognize them, and they all go to show what a frame...
...clever are Orthodox priests becoming in their struggle to survive under Soviet conditions that, according to the baffled Communists, many holy men now preach in Russia in the following vein, which was quoted by comrades as a typical example: "Jesus was of proletarian origin, the son of Joseph the carpenter and of a toiling woman. It is necessary to explain that Jesus Christ was the great Socialist and Communist predecessor of the Communist Party...
Lawrence of Arabia has become in the Near East a legendary figure whose death in a motorcycle accident in England (TIME, May 27, 1935) is considered by many Moslem chiefs to be only a particularly clever British ruse. During the Ethiopian War, swarthy millions believed that Colonel Lawrence was alive in Addis Ababa advising Haile Selassie. Some think he is now in Western Ethiopia and will yet pluck victory for the Lion of Judah. Last week in London was auctioned off a packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member...
...homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic pride, removes her eyes. He is exposed at last by an heroic and implausibly clever woman who turns an electric torch into his unprotected eyes while he is preparing for his favorite pastime...
...horse's mouth. Major Tuttle is an expert violinist. Olympic is now valued at $15,000. He cost $1. Like Vast and Si Murray, who cost $100 each, he is a thoroughbred race horse considered valueless by his former owner because he could not, or was too clever to, run fast...