Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clever cock crows from...
...face to look and, seeing nothing, passed on. A young prelate who had been sitting in that aisle was at the moment being led off to confinement between two Vatican gendarmes. Hearing the Pope's step he had sprung upon a chair, burst into a sacrilegious harrangue. The clever gendarmes did not attempt to eject him. Instead, they attracted his attention by making funny faces until the Pope had gone by. Then they arrested him. The unknown blasphemer suffered, it is said, from a temporary attack of insanity...
Traffic policemen in Dorchester and Squantum were surprised last evening to see a mist rising out of the sidewalks, something they had not seen before. A more than clever member of the Squantum, or the Dorchester, force, remarked that the mist was in a sense a significant item and seemed really romantic. But the captain at the desk suggested that there was in it more the suggestion of a classic influence. So both played checkers for two hours in the hope of solving the problem...
...sturdy young Russian landscapist who has been studying of late years at the Philadelphia Academy, Captain Vladimir Perfiliev, erstwhile of the Don Cossacks. He had painted the grim mountains of Montenegro and the bright Balkans beyond, and if you went with him to his studio he had some very clever portrait work to show you, both in color and in black-and-white. He would tell you, with a quaint mixture of genuine Slavic dignity and bursting childish delight, of how his work had taken on with patrons in Philadelphia, then Rochester, Cleveland, Chicago, Lancaster, Pa., and lately in Manhattan...
...stroke is a rather clever one, but there are considerations which lead one to expect that it may be ineffectual. The salient difference between the western independent and his Nebraska predecessor, stands in the way. Bryan knew only the politics of a presidential campaign. Otherwise his agitation was rather academic. He could mount a chatauqua platform without bothering political compeers. But Borah, now so much of a figure in the Senate, cannot enter New York politics without prudence; and prudence rather devitalizes a crusader. One is inclined to believe that Mr. Borah will value his independent reputation in the Senate...