Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought Lindsay a credit to him: she was not beautiful but she had charm, wit, sophistication, and she was on the verge of a big success in the musi-comedy world. They took to each other on sight, but Carl rapidly discovered his daughter was a little too clever for his comfort. It was bad enough when she trapped him into giving her unattractive young half-sister a horribly boring day-long birthday treat; but when she collected all his old flames for lunch and nearly ruined his new affair, it was almost too much. Father and daughter both thought...
...make up the difference in silver. He is now being considered by President Roosevelt as Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Taussig's sugar business has given him wide knowledge of trade and tariff problems, on which President Roosevelt has drawn heavily. Also 36, he is smooth, polished, clever. The job of the sub-experts was to nail down indisputable facts with the foreign experts and pass their composite work along to the White House. What was the world silver situation? Dr. Moley & colleagues would gather all available silver data, march into a conference room at the State Department...
...John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely romantic posturings seem tame by comparison, and by the enigmatic inflections Diana Wynyard gives the role which Miss Fontanne made lusty and spectacular. The decor of MGM's expert Cedric Gibbons, the direction of Sidney Franklin and the clever casting of Frank Morgan, who looks a little like Barrymore, for the role of Dr. Krug all help to make the picture a suave and ingratiating transcription, which should repay in prestige what it loses at the box office...
...Willie McLean, one of the five Scotsmen on his team, scampered down the left side of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, took a neat pass from the inside man, gave the large round leather ball a clever kick with the toe of his right shoe. It sailed past Chesney, the New York Americans' goal guard, into the net behind the goal. That was less than two minutes after the second half began but it was enough to win, 1 to 0, the first game of the two-out-of-three series in the final round...
...beauteous Marina, high priestess of a mystic sect. Physically as well as emotionally stingy, he is afraid for a while that Marina may take him as her lover; finally he is afraid that he wants her to. But Marina has more sense. She tells him: "You are too clever, incorrigibly so, my friend. It is from such as you that the world is ill." Clim, tacitly admitting she is right, leaves her and Russia...