Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elks, Boy Scouts, Better Voters' Leagues, come and sit on the lawn. Then the officeholder or office-seeker would make a speech to them which would be broadcast through the land. But this summer, Mr. Coolidge has hit upon a new method of influencing the public-and a clever one too. His scheme has two essentials...
...impressionable clerk ever died to honor a less worthy lady. The Baroness' grandfather was one Baltazzi, "a dirty Greek," who amassed millions. Her father was one Baron Vetschera, a doddering Austrian diplomat with just sense enough to sell his title high. She, launched by a clever mother, became the siren who ensnared the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef...
...very end of his treatise, Dr. d'Herelle warns: "In the prophylactic and therapeutic use of the bacteriophage there is a vast field for commercial exploitation. This has already begun. I cannot witness it without apprehension. . . . Too often, commercial firms mislead both physicians and the public by clever quotations (clever in the sense that they avoid conflict with the law) tending to make it appear that such and such a scientist supervises their products, or even controls them. I now declare that I am, and will always remain, a stranger to all 'commercial enterprises. I may go further...
...manger peace proposals, is prepared to fight all summer if necessary. The Citizens' Committee of Passaic would like to see Albert Weisford out of the way, so they bellow "Communist" at him. Communist though he may have been; he keeps silent about it. He is a clever organizer rather than a demagog, a cynic rather than a blithering reform zealot. Yet on the platform he can twist the emotions of the masses with his vibrating voice, his puny, gesticulating hands, his restless pacing up and down...
...Fascist-reactionary General Erich von Ludendorff contributed an article to the ultra-Fascist Deutsche Wochenschau last week in which he bitterly declared: "The War-distress of Germans does not seem to have been sufficiently great, or to have lasted long enough. The German people do not seem to be clever enough as yet to arise and fulfill their destiny. There is spreading among Germans a spineless nonresistance to the Anglo-U. S. scheme for a pan-Dawes Europe in which Germany and perhaps France seem destined to the status of tax-farmed debtor colonies...