Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remember," by now a bit past its prime, but nevertheless quite pleasant as Harlow sings it. And the plot, if improbable, is closely woven into an exciting story of spy intrigue and daredevil flying. Unaided by extravagant clothes to emphasize the Harlow curves, the movie is put over by clever acting and good dialogue...
...Yakob Ashkenazi were the twin sons of a pious Jew who wanted them to be rabbis. Max was calculating, clever, unscrupulous, ugly; Yakob openhanded, strong, a great favorite first with the girls and then with the heiresses who started him on his way to fortune. Because Max was considered one of the cleverest boys in the city he was selected as the bridegroom for lively, warm-hearted Dinah, daughter of a small manufacturer. But she loved Yakob who was attracted to her. In half-primitive, backward Lodz, periodically split by savage strikes of the Jewish and German weavers, by pogroms...
...Clever Marina was credited in London with having something more immediate in mind last week. Beauteous as herself are her kinswomen, the two sisters of King George II of Greece. The Duchess was apparently resolved that these eligible Princesses, Irene and Catherine, shall meet bachelor King Edward on his holiday. In Athens the newsorgan Patris flatly declared that the engagement of His Majesty to one or the other of Their Royal Highnesses "will soon be announced." The Princesses were en route to the idyllic isle of Corfu where King George II was said to anticipate entertaining King Edward...
...song contest sequence in the last act of Die Meistersinger to the right of the stage, justified his decision by referring to Wagner's original score. Reminded that Widow Wagner had always done it the other way around at Bayreuth, Toscanini snarled: "Oh, mama was not so clever as papa...
Those who were responsible for Yosemite's management, revealed Inquisitor Schenker, had sold out in 1932 to Equity Corp., which the same year clever Wallace Groves had begun to piece together mainly from broken-down trusts (TIME, Aug. 10). For his 40,000 shares of Yosemite Inventor Kettering received in exchange 20,000 shares of Equity, which he later disposed of for $1 a share...