Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural course of events that he was elected to Congress, and served unostentatiously for nearly 20 years. For 20 years he lived mostly in Washington, with his wife (a Scotswoman**) and Laura, his daughter. In recent years Laura has been his secretary. She is known as a very clever woman...
...Clever boxing featured the preliminaries of the University boxing tournament yesterday afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Only two of the eight matches were won by knockouts, and both were technical knockouts...
...number of the entrants have had previous amateur experience, and this in itself promises some clever boxing...
...small wonder that the temperamental Frenchwoman required a stimulant for her nerves. I am convinced that the French stars could not have reached their heights had they dissipated nor be more at home at a cafe table. If so, our examples of fine American manhood are not so clever, for the French beat them with a great handicap. Don't be a poor loser−give credit where credit is due (and between you and me what do you honestly think of our "clean" living Americans? Youth is the same the world over...
...expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp takes it upon itself to break Brookton tradition with a parody number of the Police Gazette. Such obvious decadence of discretion is incredible. As President Pringle himself remarked on reading the number. "I do not understand this at all." We do not understand it either. The police...