Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agent who later played a shady part in the Harding regime and wrote an audacious book about it, said Judge James M. Proctor: "The verdict reveals that the defendant capitalized not only on the sweetest and tenderest emotions of the human heart, but also on the basest in his clever and adroit plan. The Lindbergh case brought out all the best in the hearts of men, but also gave the opportunity to some to display the weakness and wickedness of human nature...
...Cheney's game, less powerful than clever, was well suited to the peculiarly pinched fairways and hard little greens of the course at Saunton. In the third round she put out Jean Hamilton, who had beaten Miss Orcutt. Next day she played Beryl Brown, won 3 & 2 for the chance to play Enid Wilson...
Most anglers consider the trout a clever creature, cool, resourceful and important. Anglers are mistaken. Trout are nervous rather than intelligent. Only terror, causing them to dart and lurk, makes them fun to catch. Puzzled, dejected, perpetually alarmed by trifles, U. S. trout were unaware last week of a new book which materially increases the dangers of their station...
...Donaldson's "A Sentimental Journey" is a clever bit, in which smart young people talk of serious matters obliquely; the brilliance of their conversation is scintillating and altogether impossible, but it makes good reading. Mr. Swain's "Young Emile Chadwick" presents a variation or two on the O. Henry formula, and the reader struggles to accept the formula so that he may enjoy the effect...
...losing battle all the way to the Court of Appeals to escape testifying. Seven years ago, aged 25, John A. Hastings was in the New York Senate when James J. Walker resolved to spring from that body into the New York mayoralty, "third biggest job in the U. S." Clever and obliging, Senator Hastings made himself indispensable to Senator Walker, has stayed close to him ever since. As public men must if they are going to do private business on the side, Mayor Walker retained a financial agent, one Russell T. Sherwood, who left Manhattan early in the Seabury investigation...