Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wright '26 showed exceptional form yesterday afternoon at the University Squash Courts when he defeated H. N. Rawlins '27 18 to 13, 11 to 15, 15 to 8, and 15 to 9 in the semi-finals of the University Squash Tournament. Rawlins, last year's University champion, played a clever game, but he was unable to cope with Wright's smashing drives. The winner's superior strength began to tell in the third and fourth games which he won with comparative ease...
...George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa.† who was so anxious about him that he should not grow up into a conceited Prussian." Of Wilhelm II (in 1877, eleven years before...
Belgium. Elizabeth Queen of the Belgians "is one of the most interesting of European Royalties ... a daughter of the Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria, the famous philanthropist and eye doctor. . . . The Queen like all the Wittelsbachs is many-sided in her accomplishments: she is a clever violinist, a great reader, an admirable horsewoman, a good shot. . . . She is the only 'flying' Queen, and she thinks as little of flight as most people do of a ride in an omnibus...
Ferguson, the diminutive pivot whose clever stick work was a great factor in last year's Yale victories, will face the University sextet tonight for the first time this season. The Eli center is fully recovered from his early season injury and is expected to make trouble for the invading defense men. Captain Potts, the stalwart Blue leader, was the outstanding player in the first University win and will be ably supported by Cole and Noble, tonight, both of whom are fast and rugged...
...policy to the caprice of press propaganda or less tangible ramifications of influence. But these circumstances should be to its leaders a challenge rather than an excise for truckling to vested interests. Certainly, no justification exists for the humiliation of student Reeve, whose single offense was the weaving of clever story about conditions in the zinc industry of his home town...