Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that he was first private speaker, with Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times. Mayor Walker of New York said he talked to Lord Mayor Sir Rowland Blades of London. There was little enough secrecy about the service, at that According to the London Daily Mail clever radio engineers, amateur and professional, were able to listen in upon the talks as far away as South Africa. Complete privacy is being striven for by engineers. . . . Mr. Gifford's conversation with Sir Evelyn began at 8:40 a. m. (1:40 p. m. London time), only slightly delayed and never...
...found shelter in a Philadelphia saloon, where he became cuspidor and errand boy at the age of seven. It was warm in the saloon, there was free food and from the beer-spotted newspapers left by customers he had learned how to read. He was, he guessed, clever as a kid, for he had risen swiftly to heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right there in Chicago. Ask anyone. Then the Windsor out in Denver had sent for him and he was doing...
...Pinkerton '27, playing number one position, will lead the Crimson riders. Ho is a clever rider and a hard, accurate hitter. W. H. White '28, number two man, is a very aggressive player and knows Pinkerton's game. F. A. Clark '29, who completes the trio, has played a great deal of polo, but is rather inexperienced in the indoor game. J. P. Cotton '29, will relieve Pinkerton. He was captain of his Freshman team and had a great deal of experience playing in England last summer...
...Boches! (To morrow, death to the Germans!) I asked my aide to muzzle his eloquent but indiscreet pet. But just as my order was given that bird exulted, 'Allaos! (There we go.) Perhaps he had a soul, but I am inclined to think he was just a mean, clever bird...
...snapping the joints in their toes? Radio broadcasting, in the last twenty years, has advanced to the stage of a loudspeaker in every home; but spirits are still forced to knock timidly on tables and moan through tin trumpets as they have always done. The interest of such clever men as Lodge and Conan-Doyle has been useless. Something must be done about it. The American people will not stand for poor service and antiquated equipment...