Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note in TIME, October 11, p. 35, under SPORT, "Eleven maroon-sweatered rakehells" referring to the University of Chicago football team. I presume your sport writer thought he was being clever, but it is just such blotches as this on the face of your otherwise fair paper that make booster-readers writhe...
...root of the dispute lies in the lack of sympathy between the above-mentioned gentlemen, and the institution which they attack. Neither of them has much love for institutional discipline. I know one personally, and the other by literary repute (as most authors are known). Both are clever, and "plastic", but neither is plastic to the type of formative discipline which they attack...
...some young brawny Boston Lithuanian. But, then- Johnson was a has-been, knocked out by fat Jess Willard; Smith was a trial horse, only fair; Roberts, who had ever heard of him? Astute, pudgy gentlemen relaxed; the heavyweight situation seemed unchanged. . . . Later came news of the defeat of clever Jack Renault, tough Johnny Risko at the same hands. The hands belonged to square-jawed Jack Sharkey, carried the potential power of dynamite. Binghamton-born, Boston-bred, this Lithuanian with a famed Irish name* served in the navy, has boxed professionally for but two years. In Boston, he is regarded...
...good turns. So I won't tell. I will only say that the Forecast shekels are being staked on said outcome in breath-taking amounts. It has always been hard, almost impossible, for me to find anyone with the temerity to wager against the infallible Forecast, but by a clever bit of strategy last week--you may have read the Saturday CRIMSON--I allowed credence to be given to the rumor that the Shemokin Idol is no longer infallible. :I have been accused of breaking faith with my public by purposely miscalling Saturday's results in one or two important...
When asked if tennis players did not have to be educated and intellectual to a certain degree to become good at the game, Mlle. Lenglen replied quickly, "You mean that is why college men play so well. No, you have to be clever in tennis, but not intellectual. College men are good players because they have more time for tennis than other people, not because they are more clever." She smiled piquantly...