Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gimlet Eye" Butler is the "Hell Devil" you claim him to be, he might have made all the Huns in front of Verdun evacuate by simply snarling at them. No disrespect to Gen. Smedley, who is no doubt a very clever man, but I am sure he would laugh if he read your article on China (June...
...revue at all. It is less clever, more loud, bawdy, vulgar and-to people who like that sort of thing-vastly more entertaining than a Times Square revue could ever be, for the revue is not native while the night club is- even in a theatre. It has the perfection of a weed that grows unashamedly where Nature intended. It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which...
Author "Henry Thomas" is a learned publisher disporting himself with the anonymity so necessary for successful indiscretions in his native Boston. His humor runs sooner to dubious epigrams than to clever psychology and his wit limps much of the way. But what he does not know about ancient Rome he invents neatly. Readers with a weakness for scandal, however frail, will applaud his effort to do with Cleopatra what Professor Erskine did for Helen of Troy...
This, however, is not all. Herr Mann wishes to picture modern life as well as life in general. Lengthy talks and debates upon contemporary social and philosophic problems of the day immediately before the war are carried on by various patients, in particular the Italian humanitarian, Ludovico Settembrini, the clever Jesuit, Naptha, and the aristocratic Pieter Peeperkorn. These philosophisings may be realistic in that they are mediocre but certainly they are mediocre but certainly they are tiresome reading...
This was enough for headline writers, for rewrite men clever at jazzing copy, for editors honest but forced to conclude that Benito Mussolini had confessed at last to militarist, imperial ambitions scarcely expressed more recklessly by Wilhelm II as Kaiser and All Highest War Lord...