Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharp tongue. She is still in brisk command of both assets. In Manhattan last summer, she was introduced to arch John Erskine, author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy, The Human Life of Jesus and some 40 other books. Said Erskine: "I've been reading your clever articles and I wonder if they're sincere." Snapped Miss West: "I've been reading yours, and I never wonder about either of those things...
...ichthyophagous Japan, good fishing techniques are a matter of national importance. So the Japanese Government asked Dr. Tadayoshi Sasaki, of Tokyo's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, to work out a commercial way of using light to catch more fish. Last week Dr. Sasaki described a fiendishly clever system of luring fish to their doom...
...dreamed of justice. More important, he had read the Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, who dreamed of power. The more Lenin schemed and struggled (in the bookstacks) for the revolution, and was thwarted, the more he thought of power. He made marginal notes on Clausewitz. "How true!" Lenin wrote. "Clever and witty." Admiringly, he summed up a Clausewitzian point: "War as a part of a whole, and that whole-politics...
...they are getting away with overnight parking now, they will continue to do so had better learn a lesson from their brethren who tried to insinuate women into choice, but masculine, seats in the Stadium cheering sections. Law enforcement has a way of tightening up that catches even the clever...
Moscow's "cold war" against the Marshall Plan was hottest on the cartoon front. Favorite subjects were an apelike George Marshall and the "bootlicking" Western press. Goebbels & Co. had scarcely fared worse at the clever hands of Soviet cartoonists...