Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether McLarnin could preserve his record of never having lost a return bout to a fighter who had previously defeated him, a crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited for the chance, which Ross was too clever to give him, to use his devastating right hand. After fifteen brisk but ineffective rounds, Ross walked to his corner, Mc Larnin turned the handspring with which, if he is able to move at the end of a fight, he invariably expresses his conviction that he has won. The judges cast...
...with his little daughter Lizzie knocks about the continent living on his wits. At the end of his rope, down & out, he decides to retire to the bosom of his family, peacefully dwelling in a London suburb. The family consists of solid citizens, wives, husbands, children, to whom the clever, worldlv-wise Nicholas is an adventure. Nicholas soon discovers that there are good pickings. Brother-in-law Charles, devoted husband and father, is an easy mark for Nicholas' charm. The Black Sheep finds it convenient to help himself to money and valuable articles lying about in this trusting circle...
Motoring through Beaconsfield, England, Manhattan's clever Lawyer Fanny Holtzmann careened into a telephone pole, escaped with bruises. "To end the guessing game" which followed her settlement of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov's libel suit based on the film Rasputin and the Empress (TIME, Aug. 20), Attorney Holtzmann announced that her client would receive $250,000 and costs from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Hampshire for the U. S. Presidency in June 1852, the Boston & Maine Railroad was casting about for some smart new way to advertise the candidate's home state as a summer resort. A bright young B. & M. passenger agent named Jim Elkins thought it would be clever to promote a boat race between Harvard and Yale on Lake Winnepesaukee. He persuaded New Haven friends to persuade Yale to issue a challenge which Harvard promptly accepted. The race was billed as "the marine contest of the ages." The man who the following spring was to become the 14th President...
Hearing on these proposed amendments was set for this week in Washington. Bursting with indignation the American Newspaper Publishers Association girded for another fray, in which their field general would be, as always, Lawyer Elisha Hanson. Chubby, suave, immensely clever, with a facility for catching witnesses off guard with abrupt questions, Lawyer Hanson has long been the Press's No. i lobbyist in Washington...