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Word: cleverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marie Louise, a great friend of Constance's. Constance knows of the liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject, to buy his wife a string of pearls, as heart-balm for his suspicions of her. Constance then advises Marie Louise and Mortimer to go away for a year, which they do. It then...

Author: By P. H. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/16/1927 | See Source »

...this Dr. von Prittwitz be? Research showed him to be no more than Counselor of Embassy at the German Embassy at Rome. Was the German Government actually proposing to elevate a man of such minor rank to be an ambassador? Well, why not? He was evidently a capable, brilliant, clever diplomat. There was no reason why the U. S. should object to the appointment. The U. S. Secretary of State caused the German Government to be informed by cable that the President and Government of the U. S. considered Dr. von Prittwitz persona grata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Ambassador | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...week was rounded off with a leisurely, over-Saturday-and-Sunday-night Potomac river cruise on the yacht Mayflower. Distinguished super cargo included Senators Curtis of Kansas, Oddie of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona and tall, clever Smoot of Utah; also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider and Mrs. MacNider, Commissioner R. K. Smith of the Shipping Board, and Mrs. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...people is brought to the lamentable conclusion that the stimuli which produce those reactions most magnificently show a constantly increasing cheapness and standardization"), "The Motherland," "American Criticism," "The Muse in Our Midst." Unlike Mr. Mencken, Author Nathan seldom sweats or bares his teeth; he dances, like a graceful, surly, clever clown through a loud Mardi Gras of vulgarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...86th season.† Next Night. " Opening concerts," said the Philharmonic program, "Nos. 2189 and 2190"; and proceeded to list a Vivaldi concerto, a Rieti concerto, Ferroud's "Foules" and Beethoven's Second Symphony. A great audience, eager to be pleased, found the Vivaldi pleasant; the Rieti clever, inconsequential; the Ferroud noisy, tiresome as the crowds he pictured; the compound undistinguished. Applause, highly in order at the season's first con certs, was given lavishly to Conductor Mengelberg in exchange for his stuffy little bows and to the superb orchestra which he com mands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philharmonic Opening | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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