Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC AND THE GULLIBLE TO RAISE HUGE FUNDS . . . WE CAN NEITHER HALT YOUR CLEVER SLANDER NOR HOPE TO CONVERT YOU TO THE SIDE OF THE TRUTH, AND THEREFORE THERE ONLY REMAINS FOR US TO PRAY FOR THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL IF IT CAN BE CALLED A SOUL, THIS MASS OF VENOM THAT FILLS YOUR BLACK HEART AND FLOWS FROM YOUR FILTHY TONGUE...
...debt to the Commies for their crucial support in last October's election. He paid it by giving them three Cabinet posts, their first in South America; other posts went to the right-wing landowner Liberals and his own middle-of-the-road Radicals. But even as clever a performer as Gonzÿlez found it difficult to walk this political tightrope with the comrades on his shoulders. Last month, he eased them out of the act, and formed a new Cabinet dominated by his own party...
Musical numbers for the show, which director Achenhurst asserts is "shaping up well," include "I Blame It on the Section Man," "If You're Clever. You'll Never Visit Boston," "By the Subway in the Square," and as a grand finale number, "Jubilee...
...Chiao (clever). "Clever" Chinese are slick at rendering the "outward formal likeness"; they know the "rules." As Old Master Ching Hao put it: "The skillful painter carves out and pieces together scraps of beauty...
...episodes are minor ones), it lies close to the heart of Noel Coward's particular kind of talent. His deep affection and respect for his subject cannot be questioned, nor can his deep knowledge of it (he came from just such a background). But he is an extremely clever man, with a great flair and fondness for theatrical trick and design, which, at their worst, can use emotions as if they were stage properties. When clever men try to write with complete sincerity and, at the same time, to apply their sophistication to simple matters, the result is sometimes...