Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their country left alone as the only world power still on gold, French bankers privately denounced the President's action as a "political fraud, too clever to be successful." Cried the Journal des Debats: "We would be playing the dupe to continue distributing gold. . . ." But sitting on top of a $3,170,000,000 reserve Marianne la France vowed she would not go off gold...
...American generosity to the embryonic spirit of Cuban independence, and flaunted as perfect evidence of the non-imperialism of America, the political independence of Cuba is in reality a perfect farce. Theoretically autonomous, the Cuban government dares not cross swords with American sugar trusts. Granting Cuba independence was a clever move. Pseudo-political independence placed the Cuban people only to bring about a thorough economic exploitation of their country by Americans...
...hats, and all kinds of old clothes. Now at Dartmouth, they have sensible clothes. And another thing. I don't see why you don't have a winter carnival like they do in New Hampshire. Where would they get the snow? Why don't be silly. Where do those clever people at Dartmouth get it? From the sky, of course. I read in the CRIMSON about how those haberdashers on the Square said that you boys were not the collegiate style leaders because you were afraid to wear the latest styles. That's not right. You're just too nonchalant...
...have little worth; for to them, to all but the few, its tone of complete scorn and sophisticated humor would be meaningless. To be sure, Mr. Lewis uses an imitation of Everybody's "langwidge," rich in "the missis" and "guys," and other expressions of the "Capone era," but his clever turns of phrase his pungent sarcasm are his own. It is to the intellectuals, to readers able to appreciate Lewis' habitual esoterica, that he writes, and his remarks to Mr. and Mrs. Everybody are biting, derisive...
...Gang and the New Gang" has the framework of one of Thackeray's Roundabout papers. Mr. Lewis refers to his clever title several times in the first half of the essay, and then forgets about it. His analysis of American politics is an incorrect as his remarks on Leon Trotsky. He tries to be a little too smart, to be sound. He siezes on a few irrelevancies, and builds on them a general philosophy...