Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lincoln, a big, slow-spoken man, slick at hunting and swapping, but not clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion...
That uncle and his matutinal greeting were inspired by one of the earliest and most successful advertising campaigns ever conducted. Another clever publicist once started every one saying, "Have you a little fairy in your home?" And once upon a time, the pinnacle of witty suggestion could be scaled by pointing at a pretty girl, a dashing yacht or a sore throat and ejaculating, "Ask the man who owns...
...unlikely event of a commercial slump, the majority party would be a handy scapegoat. Clever politicians could then marshal the general discontent into a demonstration against the shadowy ethics of the aluminum case. An even more vital grievance can be found in the presidential practice of packing the supposedly non-partisan Tariff Commission with advocates of protection. As a means of holding the present elephantine majority, Republican prayers for prosperity would be more effective than abstract assertions of party rectitude...
Shubert Earl Carroll's Vanities," at 8.00 Chiefly notable for a number of clever skits and the fact that all the women in the show are awful...
Hallock, Wilkinson's defense mate, is the fastest skater among the invaders. In addition, he is clever with his stick, and a considerable factor in both the offensive and defensive schemes of Coach Ramsey...