Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swift pace set for them by the master author of TIME'S unique manner of expression. You are fortunate in having this series in the hands of one who could take his place among your capable group of reporters without your readers ever missing a bit of your clever flow of prose...
...said a critic, commenting, in 1802, upon the death of Artist Romney, "he belongs to the ages." That statement is applied to all popular painters at death, but in the case of George Romney it was singularly accurate. The ages have adopted him, his theatricality, his sentimentality, his clever color, his stilted drawing. Alone, perhaps, of all the draughtsmen of his period, he paid no attention to posterity. Therefore posterity took him to her bosom. He painted to please his patrons, to make a living. He still pleases the patrons of Sir Joseph Duveen, and the sale...
...compliments to the editor of RELIGION. The article on "Baptist Divine Norris" (TIME, July 26th) is clever, interesting, and essentially to the point...
...pretty wife and a little son named Dante. There was another baby coming. He lived in a bungalow belonging to his employer, Michael Kelly. . . . The men were friends. Often Kelly advised him to lay off this anarchist stuff. There was no money in it. ... Sacco was a clever young fellow and could soon get to be a prosperous citizen, maybe own a factory of his own some day, live by other men's work. But Sacco, working in his garden in the early morning before the whistles blew, hilling beans, picking off potato bugs, worried about things...
...Peter Audaim - after informing the surprised junkman that within it was concealed $1,200, Peter's life savings but recently drawn from the bank. The single clue to the identity of the junkman was the blue mattress which frugal Peter's unwitting spouse had included in her clever deal...