Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this monumental tragedy is a confused and laborious tale of two rugged individualists and their battle for pearls, gold, and a woman. Both men are the ultimate in their types. The hero is strong, courageous to a fault, and kind to kiddies. The heavy is wealthy, unscrupulous, and abominably clever. A couple of characters like this can make a picture dull under any circumstances, but when the whole improbable business is set in the languid South Seas amid octopi and dancing girls and crusted with miserable dialogue, the boredom reaches epic proportions...
...concert concluded with the Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fee." Although this was the most melodic of the material played and the easiest to understand, it did not impress me much one way or the other. The writing is clever but essentially empty...
...Stalin statement was, therefore, far from a grandiose gesture in the direction of solving the cold war. It was a very clever frame-up, and in spite of Secretary Acheson's reasoned reply, it made the United States look like a villain to many people. It was neatly timed to interfere with the Atlantic Alliance negotiations between Western powers. Why combine against the Soviet threat when there may be no threat at all?--this was an immediate reaction to Stalin's vague and friendly words, and it showed how devastating Russian propaganda...
Your excellent article on Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
They find New England particularly attractive because the area is mostly under cultivation, and there is nothing a marmot likes better than grade A garden vegetables. A definite propensity for red clever and celery has created a certain degree of bad feeling between woodchucks and Now England farmers...