Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorman '33 takes the part of Mason Bradley, the smooth villain, who nearly outwits Gerry Randall in their courtship of Betty-Ann. The next to the last scene is laid in Steve's speakeasy, in which M. A. Heath '33, playing the part of the bartender does a clever piece of acting...
...being a columnist with false pretensions to wit and of being a dramatic critic with an utter lack of dramatic appreciation. Such attacks, however, have very little effect on Mr. Nathan whose self complacence seems to grow the harder it is buffetted. On the surface his criticism is clever and thin, but after a more careful consideration of his longer works the cleverness becomes keenness and what seemed superficiality is really cogency without the worm eaten prop of dry scholarship...
...play is one of the type known as "problem plays", here representing the evils arising in a democratic republic when mass control passes into the hands of unscrupulous and private-minded individuals. Ably creating an illusion of reality as clever and unprincipled politicians, William Hale Thompson and John H. Lyle act the leading roles. A certain A. Capone is rumored to be the producer of this bit of modern satire, and Mr. Capone, it is said, has taken great care that every detail of the production shall be perfect...
THERE are certain events that are of themselves too dramatic for man to dramatize. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo with all its implications is so tremendous that any novel must of necessity diminish rather than heighten its effect. It is not a clever plot: nor is it a highly emotional tour de force. No single imagination can capture in fiction its massive significance...
Winnie Churchill today has a particular following which was not his 15 years ago. He has become the caustic, clever leader of the Tory diehards. Winston Churchill was a young army officer when Rudyard Kipling was writing about the Lord God of Hosts "beneath whose awful hand we hold dominion over palm and pine." Fervently as any of his generation has Winston Churchill believed in Great Britain's divine right to rule-by force. His grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough, descendant of that first Duke of Marlborough of whose going to war French children still carol...