Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thereupon accused the British Foreign Office's civil servants of an "indiscretion" would have been contrary to the principles of British parliamentarianism and of British journalism. Instead last week, the London Daily Telegraph spoke of Italian secret operatives having filched the document out of British hands "by a clever piece of indiscretion"-neatest trick of the week...
...attention her progress has aroused. Though it was obvious from her first book that she was an exceptionally gifted writer she has had the unfortunate faculty of frightening plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen...
...Clever stickwork by Captain Wilson and Pete Dominick who made 17 goals between them, proved too much for he Crimson riders as they lost 18-9 to Yale in the New Haven Armory Saturday night...
...Kitty's" supreme contempt, however, is reserved for proponents of the Baconian theory. Once at a Yale dinner he listened to a clever speaker "prove" that Shakespeare's plays could have been written by no one but Sir Francis Bacon. At the end "Kitty" arose, picked up the menu, gravely announced: "Gentlemen, I shall now prove that this menu was written by John Keats...
Author E. M. Delafield (Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood), a nice mixture of Jane Austen, Punch and her own "provincial lady," writes with malice aforethought but manages to leave a pleasantly salty aftertaste. Seldom frighteningly clever, she preaches entertaining sermonettes that make her listeners laugh out of both sides of the mouth, go chuckling home to Sunday dinner...