Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clever Cambridge cops spent yesterday catching motorists with their accelerators down...
...Indian's sales resistance to anything better in shoes has been as tough as the calluses on his broad feet. Only one salesman ever dented it-and he was fictional, an O. Henry character (Mr. Hemstetter in Cabbages and Kings) who promptly sold out his stock after a clever schemer sprinkled the countryside with Alabama cockleburs...
...News, itself, has contributed a bold and pleasing make-up and a running commentary, which is little more than enlogistic. Some clever, original cartoons by Robert Osborn brighten up the sometimes dingy copy. All in all, Seventy-five, combines the dull with the interesting; it is a monumental work of its kind...
...Commons, and were countered by Misery Martin with petitions bearing 512,735 signatures. People who want to reform the traditional British Sunday, complained one lady educator, are those who say: "Reading bores us, walking and cycling tire us, family reunions irritate us, museums and picture galleries are too clever for us, and the BBC sometimes expects us to concentrate our attention." The House rejected the reforms by a vote...
...them a few francs to paint "in the style" of a recognized master, then peddle the pictures to gullible bargain hunters, often-the experts believe-to unwary tourists from Latin America and the U.S. Most of the time the fakes are incredibly crude, but sometimes the canvases are so clever that they defy even a shrewd buyer...