Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What did Jean Tourenq know? Dozens of French politicians worried about the little tax collector last week. Had he really uncovered a new scandal, or was this a clever scheme to bluff the Government out of $200,000? Important men visited him in his cell last week, pleaded with him to give up the money or tell what he knew. Jean Tourenq hugged his knees and repeated his demand for a public trial...
...would decide. Public opinion seemed to be that Mrs. Gavin, real daughter or adopted, deserved some share of the Flood fortune. They recalled too that California's late Senator James Duval Phelan, another rich, lusty Irishman, but a wiser one, had provided against just such suits by a clever clause in his will- Suddenly there was a wild wave of excitement. Spectators rose in their chairs and booed angrily when old Judge Buck halted the case in midtrial, ordered the jury to return a prompt verdict against Mrs. Gavin...
...white party dress, with only a brightened green frill as a vestige of the by-gone years, she has made her dowager debut. Whereas Pegasus, her ancestral sire, has been rejuvenated by Spring, she has had a completely modern face-lifting. But the old lady was clever enough to realize the futility of mere external dressing up. A blood transfusion was made and in her haughty blue veins there now flow some new corpuscles--some with a crimson tinge. She makes no claim to being an Edna Wallace Hopper. She grew old and experienced the peacefulness...
...Iolanthe the Vagabond went down Pieadilly with a poppy and a lily. Yea, verily, there were giants upon the earth in the old days. And that is why the Vagabond is wont to assume a certain cynicism towards the modern productions, and to mumble under his breath, "It's clever...
Charles Gleason Jr., 12, of Newton, Kan., who is as inquisitive as a young fox terrier, never gets lost. As soon as he opens his eyes a morning, he automatically recognizes compass points. All day long thereafter he knows exactly where he is. He is as clever and undeliberating as any bird or animal when it comes to homing...