Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatist. "Given to duty and very clever in carrying it out," was the way Fisherman-Essayist Henry van Dyke described Queen Wilhelmina in the days when he was U. S. Minister to her court...
...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...
...Purcell catches, for example, are neat, sparkling little pieces written to rollicking texts, which require a certain amount of editing for relatively prudish modern audiences. Lawton's arrangement of Casey Jones is a remarkably clever composition, and The Old Maid's Song, a Kentucky mountain folk-song, has a text and a lilting melody which ensure its success in spite of a rather unimaginative setting...
...clever Japanese calculated that about 57% of their exports to the U. S. are raw silk, and that 52% of the silk is knitted into full-fashioned women's hosiery. The Japanese have observed that, at least in cities, U. S. women cannot do without silk stockings, and silk stockings wear out continually so that even a temporary buyers' strike is next to impossible. So by last week raw silk cost U. S. hosiers as much as $3.55½ a nine-year peak price, up nearly $1 since August, up $1.75 since December. U. S. silkmen were full...
...Captain Ahrens] brought us through, and no matter what you might say about a Nazi captain, he, together with all these clever boys, outwitted the British Navy...