Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the border into Germany just in time. Unnamed secret policemen conferred with Scotland Yard. A suave and charming investment broker ("known in political circles throughout Europe") ran luxurious offices in the Place de la Madeleine, had $13,250,000 in Nazi gold to spend, used two or three clever and beautiful women, two clever private detectives, and a Dictaphone, in carrying on his devious and expensive work...
...wish to announce the work I prize above all. It is your most clever and appealing notice of Walt Mason's death [TIME, July 3, p. 31]. He was my friend...
...distance, the Nazi press in Berlin, carried a headline: U. S. Admiral Is Agitator. The British, cornered at every turn in China, frankly admired the Admiral's quick, firm action. They might also admire the U. S. State Department. For months the Japanese have practiced the clever dodge of blaming any international scrape they got into in China on the military people on the spot. The U. S. has adopted the stalemate expedient of letting its military people on the spot take independent counteraction. Ever since the Chinese-Japanese War started Admiral Yarnell, tall, thin lowan...
...Paris last week telephone users were urged to "Save your time, your money, your memory and your nerves." How? By renting a clever little gadget for automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...
...Philadelphia Story. Katharine Hepburn at her most stunning in a clever, impolite Philip Barry comedy (TIME, April...