Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways in which clever women can endear themselves to men is by playing down to them. Clever men understand this is mere humoring on the clever woman's part, but they like it. E. M. Delafield (née Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture; now Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood) is good at humoring her readers, who liked her Diary of a Provincial Lady, should like The Provincial Lady in London still more...
...CRIMSON admits that the Lampoon extra sent to the stadium immediately after the game last Saturday was a clever parody. But it is just such trivial breaches of common sense, not to mention tact, which make the spirit of the Harvard-Princeton game that of a prize flight.--Tuesday, November...
Caught cribbing, a University of Utah class in Chinese political thought was thus reproved by its professor, Utah's Senator-elect Elbert Duncan Thomas: "If you are going to cheat or steal, get something worth while. Be clever and make the other fellow pay. Don't get caught. I have been fooling people all my life. The first people I fooled were my parents. When I grew up I fooled my wife when I married her. Now I have played a joke on 117,000 Utah voters. However, only about 2.000 of these knew whom they were voting...
There are pages of late Pennsylvania news, orthodox feature stories of national affairs. The bulk of the 400,000 circulation is attracted by the "departments"-Women's Realm; Household Helps; Odd. Strange & Curious; Live Topics for Women & Children; Clever Little Stories; The Story Section. Also there are comics. Will Rogers, and a Sermon for the People written weekly for the past 26 years by Rev. Stephen Paulson of Williamsport...
...productions. It is because Cynara presents, with sombre thoughtfulness, a situation which the cinema almost always handles blatantly ; and because the values which it involves, while not particularly subtle, are wholly unlike those which U. S. cinema audiences are usually called upon to comprehend. Good shot: Phyllis Barry-a clever young actress whom Producer Goldwyn admired last year when she was playing in a Hollywood musical comedy-in a theatre with Colman, laughing at Charlie Chaplin. The Devil Is Driving (Paramount) is another chapter in Paramount's current saga of crime & punishment, dealing with misbehavior in the garage...