Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strange that such a narrow way of looking at the world should produce an exaggerated self respect. With this went a great regard for personal strength and courage. If for any reason their qualities failed he had a regard for intellectual strength. He admired trickiness and cleverness reaching almost to dishonesty; in fact the clever lawyer was the man who had a great resource of tricky devices...
...verse of the number included two good little things, the quartrain signed "L. H." being very clever...
...familiar with certain verses and charades which have appeared in some of the monthly magazines from time to time can be at loss to name the author of the three Charades; such clever turns and dainty phrazing can come from...
...college nine in my recollection, or of which I can find any record, has ever equalled it." He also says in speaking of the Princeton game: "There was one extremely pleasant feature of the Harvard-Princeton game, and that was the cheering by Harvard men of Princeton's clever plays, and the total absence of hooting her poor plays. This was in marked contrast to the attempts to rattle Highlands at Princeton. It was amateur base ball; it was gentlemanly...
...Century Company up to the time of his death. He was the founder of the magazine and the inspirer of its most important enterprises. The other notice noticeable contributions to the number are the continuation of the "Naulahka" and Dr. Mitchell's "Characteristics" and the usual number of clever stories and poems...