Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of the man generally considered to be Claude Bellow's most able successor. Concerning themselves solely with the prize ring, the ten lithographs form an excellent instance of what can be accomplished by capable mediocrity when given an opportunity to express itself. Mr. Riggs has been clever enough to realize the wealth of artistic material in the vigorous, stinking lewdness of the small-time professional ring, and although he is hampered by a lack of highly skilled technical ability, he has succeeded well in congealing on paper, the brutal spirit of his subject...
Dick and Rose met in an arty Manhattan boarding house. Dick wore: spectacles, came from the Middle West, "wanted to write"; Rose was a pretty Southerner who thought she could act. Instead they got married. Dick changed his investments, and the Coolidge boom kept him thinking he was clever and well off. Rose turned their first attempt at a child into an abortion. When the crash came they went to Paris to save money. There Rose got in with people Dick disliked. She and Dick quarreled. But inertia, a wise doctor and common sense brought them together again. They went...
Starhemberg is a descendant of the Prince Starhemberg who defended Vienna against the Turks in 1683 and he consequently has a certain romantic appeal for the people; he is in every way a more attractive figure than the Chancellor, and that he is just as ambitious and more clever is becoming increasingly apparent. What his next move is going to be is, I think, fairly clearly adumbrated by the rumors which are being spread--and there is no doubt under whose auspices the spreading is being done. The main rumor has it that there may be a Hapsburg restoration...
Outfighting and outplaying them throughout the entire game, the Harvard Freshman basketball team defeated a strong Dean Academy quintet 34-29 at the New Indoor Athletic Building on Wednesday. Showing a powerful and clever brand of basketball, the Freshmen set a fast pace throughout the game, and were never headed. The forward wall of Ernest A. Gray, Byron W. Meser, and Thomas W. Stephenson clicked consistently, contributing 25 points to the team's total. The summary: HARVARD '37 DEAN Moser, l.f. l.f., Satalin Stephenson, r.f. r.f., Anniue Gray, c. c., Hixson Mason, Gibson, l.g. l.g., DiGiovanni, Meehan Field, Witherspoon...
...good heart and good sense. Arriving in Russia a bewildered, unsophisticated German child-princess, she learns she is not wanted by the heir apparent, Grand Duke Peter (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). But she changes his mind when she inadvertently meets him. Married, she wins the trust of Russia's clever, lustful Empress Elizabeth (Flora Robson). The Grand Duke is moody, ill-tempered, pathological. He seeks Catherine's bed only when-like Queen Christina under different circumstances-she says she has had 17 lovers. When Elizabeth dies the new Emperor Peter III rules recklessly, becomes increasingly suspicious of Catherine...