Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game played earlier in the season, the New York Rugby Club proved that it had a strong team. Outstanding in the New York lineup are Letcher, a clever forward; Carey, the scrum half who was a substitute on the all-eastern team which played Cambridge; and Howland and Strange, former Yale football players...
KALEIDOSCOPE - Stefan Zweig - Viking ($3). Thirteen stories by an author who is clever but does not deserve to be confused with Arnold Zweig who wrote The Case of Sergeant Grischa...
...stingy, Mayer Amschel Rothschild gets a good idea on his death bed. He tells his five sons to found banking houses in the five greatest cities in Europe. Nathan Rothschild (George Arliss), third son of Mayer Amschel, is less disreputable than his father but no less clever. Head of the London branch, he arranges to have his brothers in Frankfort, Vienna, Paris and Naples support the Allies against Napoleon. By the time Napoleon goes to Elba Rothschild and the Duke of Wellington (C. Aubrey Smith) are great friends. When Wellington tells him the Allies propose a loan to rehabilitate France...
...George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long and under so many names, that he cannot step completely and instantly out of his most famed role. His hauteur, his bandy-legged walk, his hawk nose and his sloping shoulders suit a proud, gererous, clever banker even better than they do a British prime minister. After this picture the chances are even that most cinemaddicts will think of him in terms of Rothschild rather than of Disraeli...
...foils matches were closely contested and ended with Harvard leading 5 to 4. Steele, the Shawmut star, defeated three Crimson men in well fought matches, and the visitors appeared to have a good chance to beat the strong Harvard team. However the clever dueling of Webster F. Williams '35 and Edward A. Langenan '35 in the epee matches, and the ability of Edward A. Ackerman '34 in the sabre event soon gave the Crimson a winning advantage...