Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the obvious righteousness of his task, Senator Black finds the friends of his enemies and the enemies of all right-minded people not only numerous, but well-disciplined and clever. As soon as an inquiry is even mentioned, thousands of indignant telgrams pour into the Senate, and from then on, it is one obstruction after another that the culprits throw across the path of justice. Even polite questionnaires aren't answered, important records are hidden and destroyed, high powered corporation lawyers insist on "constitutional rights", which mean the rights of the rich to keep secret the secrets...
Here poor Senator Black finds himself confronted with what seem from his descriptions insuperable odds. He faces clever men, with the best lawyers money can get behind them; the Senate can only hire their lawyers at $300 a month, and their clever men don't, for some strange reason, go in for investigations. No wonder resort must sometimes be made to bludgeoning and badgering. Otherwise in a great many cases, the defendants go through an investigation, not only with reputations enhanced, and Senators looking silly, but also they submit to not the slightest inconvenience or unhappiness. If you lack...
...Majesty is a weak-eyed young man whom most Japanese reverence without knowing or asking whether Emperor Hirohito is either strong or clever. To such questions from a foreigner, Japanese of high station are apt to reply blandly, "The Emperor is young...
When Sulla became dictator of Rome, one of the names published on his proscribed list was that of Caius Julius Caesar, a tittering young sophisticate whose debaucheries were many but whose only political crime had been joining Sulla's opponents. Clever and consumingly ambitious, Caesar dodged and bribed his way out of Italy, and even after his friend's had won for him Sulla's contemptuous pardon he was wise enough not to return till after Sulla's death. While Caesar was cultivating the arts of a courtier in Asia (Author Bentley has him companioning...
...they are in a class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept all critical hats off. The Thinking Reed, in spite of its tasteless title, immediately took its deserved place among the best novels in the short memory of modern man. Rebecca West...