Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passos the man is deceptively unlike Dos Passos the writer. Tall, baldish, bobbing and very nearsighted, he looks like a clever, kind, slightly startled Bill the Lizard in Alice in Wonderland. Born in Chicago, his family, friends and fancy have taken him so many hithers & yons about the Western World that a casual acquaintance might be hard put to name his habitat. His grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when...
...Clephane, private secretary to Civil War Secretary of State William Henry Seward and later a court stenographer, for a quicker way of publishing legal briefs. In 1876 Clephane and his associates brought their ideas to the Baltimore shop where Mergenthaler, 22, was a watchmaker's handy and clever apprentice...
...will have apparently and probably actually grown in stature, as the history of any past minority candidate will tell us. The heat of battle is not the only way in which a man is tempered and defined to all voters; what the voter will learn, through clever propaganda, of a candidate's birthplace, size of family, and personal eccentricities will make him bulk larger on the political horizon...
...University is basing its claims this week upon two diverting features and a reasonable suspicion that exams sharpen the movie-urge. The featured attraction is "The Garden Murder Case" with Edmund Lowe doing a good job as Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece is the now familiar "Give Us This Night" which offers the pleasing voice and ever so charming person of Miss Gledys Swarthout singing her way through a Neopolitan opera romance. She is considerably abetted by Jan Kiepara...
Middle section of Dramatis Personae consists of fragments of a later diary, notes on the death of Synge. Some typical Yeatsian epigrams: "My father says, 'A man does not love a woman because he thinks her clever or because he admires her, but because he likes the way she has of scratching her head.' " "Emotion is always justified by time, thought hardly ever." "I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and har lots." "A gentleman...