Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BELIEVE YOU OWE DOCTOR SPAETH AMENDS AND APOLOGIES AND SOME CLEVER CAPTION-WRITER A GOOD HARD SIT DOWN IN HIS CHAIR FOR WHAT IS ON PP. 36 AND 37, TIME. APRIL...
Ever since Robert Maynard Hutchins became president of big University of Chicago in 1929, he has enjoyed himself tremendously. He reduced the term of Chicago's undergraduate course from four years to whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...
...inborn talents and a clever child's natural aptitude in imitating her elders, three years of experience have added, in the case of Cinemactress Temple, the technique of a seasoned trouper. In Captain January she had to come down a 45-ft. lighthouse stairway while a camera crane moved beside her catching a line at each turn of the stairs. The difficulty was to time the lines exactly to the turns and simultaneously to a dance step with which she was punctuating her words. Shirley did not miss once...
This disclosure of judicial integrity was the result of a clever bit of sleuthing by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Last month that Michigan Republican began to display an inordinate curiosity about AAA's big beneficiaries. Who, he asked, was the cotton grower who received $168,000, the hog-raiser who received $219,825, the Puerto Rican sugar producer who received $961,064? In the Senate he offered a resolution requiring the Department of Agriculture to furnish a complete list of those ''farmers" who had received $10,000 or more in AAA benefits...
Five men from the Dramatic Club will play the male roles in a Wheaton College production of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," a perennial favorite to be presented the first part of May. The play is exceedingly light throughout, depending for its success on clever puns and epigrams...