Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mighty. Prince Joachim Albrecht, composer and orchestra conductor, has followed Count Keyserling and Herr Ludwig across the sea, and has stirred up rather more of a storm than his predecessors. Unless his much-discussed concert materializes. America will miss a first-hand view of royalty, and the coiners of clever generalities on racial characteristics will lose a perfectly good example...
Thus Il Duce weaseled in a reminder that Italians Sacco & Vanzetti were executed despite protests from almost every European nation. That Italy would follow in the independent lead of the U. S. in administering her internal affairs was his clear & clever implication...
...there are violations of the general tone of the issue. It is pleasing to see that those responsible for the current Lampoon have from the very first picture (a realistic one to the Haveler who knows the American Express in Paris) set a tone which is maintained throughout. The clever page ornaments, the drawings of various climes (in which every part of the world is represented), the naturalistic rendering of the jokes, and in fact all the drawings show care and an insistence on finest execution by the artists...
...British Broadcasting Company tut-tutted over the troubles of George V, with radio interference and promised His Majesty perfect reception with a new type of set. Meanwhile Queen Mary had strolled off to a booth where "Nosey Parkers" were for sale. When an attendant donned one of those clever rubber masks and blew up the nose to a grotesque, bulbous protuberance, Her Majesty reached for her purse. Perhaps she bought the "Nosey Parker'' to entertain her small and only granddaughter, "Baby Betty," 22 months old, daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York...
...this feast of fake fatalities and free-for-all ballyhoo. Some criticised the apparent foolishness of the press. Others gave great praise to Press-agent Irving Strouse. They said: "Certain flowers have a brief but repetitive bloom; likewise a fashion, a joke, a publicity stunt. Press-agent Strouse was clever in that he accurately gauged the precise degree of reportorial gullibility; newshawks are perhaps to be excused for supposing that no one would dare attempt so blatant a hoax in the hope of practicing a deception. Press-agent Strouse indubitably won the game and the game was worth the candy...