Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insull's expansion was of an entirely different type. Whereas the Rockefeller, Ford, and Sloan interests were expanding by a normal increase in the demand for their products, Insull Utilities rose in value chiefly by an elaborate system of pyramiding stocks in the organization of new companies and by clever propaganda which created an unwarranted demand for common stock. By an ingenious series of maneuvers in buying and selling their own stocks, Insull Utilities eased into position to raise the price of their common stock almost at will, although realizing that such action was on very shaky financial and legal...
Hell, no! Don't penalize your advertisers who are clever enough to copy your style...
...Under a clever ride by the old master, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's four-year-old won in a driving finish in the $5,000 Invitation Purse...
...adaptation brings to the movie-goer who likes bold adventurers, mellow romance, and plays of a period far removed from our own, an hour's enjoyable entertainment. Cast in the role of Edmond Dantes, later the Count of Monte Cristo, Robert Donat gives a convincing performance. Suave, dashing, and clever, he captures to a great degree the manner and character of Dumas' immortal hero. Fortunate for the picture, the love interest, supplied by Elissa Landi, is subordinated. Other members of the cast were well selected and aid greatly in presenting a vivid dramatization...
...Rowe home. It was a Greenberg up here today when that game the Cardinals was Owen the Tigers was finished. There a Foxy team from Missouri and a Frisch group all right. I say, how can Tigers win when Cards are stacked against them. This fella Dean, he real clever, but not too clever for Sage of the Age, who decrees...