Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just on the scent of the Anglo-French negotiations by Sir Austen himself, when he committed the crowning blunder of formally alluding to them in an indirect, tantalizing manner before the House of Commons. These indefensibly premature remarks, amounting to an open boast that he had done something clever in secret which he was not yet prepared to reveal, placed upon Sir Austen Chamberlain personally an imputation of sheer obtuseness which his political enemies are now loudly tooting up and down England, in view of the approaching General Election...
Later on, it appeared that the agonies of the elderly princess were quite unnecessary. The soldier was no cardsharper but a clever commoner who had devised this means of punishing the young princess for being cruel to him-a means also of exhibiting the soothing power of wickedness upon recalcitrant women. In the last act it appears that the soldier has triumphed upon the lady who insulted him in the first. Though she pleads with him not to go away, he has become arrogant now and leaves her though he loves...
Elmer Davis, on the other hand, is sufficiently master of the art of human speech to reconstruct the converse of garrulous though ancient Hebrews. It seems that David didn't kill the giant after all. Coming by lucky chance upon dead Goliath, he was clever enough to cut off the giant's head, and claim a superhuman victory. His whole career glittered with similar shrewd opportunism, alternating with cowardly lapses which the loyal Joab covered. Joab did all the killing, David got all the credit...
...definitely known, but it would not be at all surprising to see the diminutive pilot answer the whistle tomorrow. The handling of the team by E. T. Putnam '30 and T. W. Gilligan '31 against West Point was questionable at several times and the opportunity for a clever quarterback is wide open. Putnam was directing team B in signals, while Gilligan worked out on team C. Coach Horween announced that Putnam would start against the Indians, but there is certainly a plan to use Crawford a good deal even if not in the starting lineup...
...laying bare the artist's mechanical simulation of emotion, the author has given a penetrating study of an inadequate subject. Gifted ironist, Anne Parrish (of The Perennial Bachelor) has allowed her irony to become too clever to be convincing...