Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...role as a publicity stunt. The Daily Mirror was about to publish a serial novel by Elinor Glyn relating the adventures of the vanished British woman, Miss Levy. Hence the carefully arranged passport pictures, the initials, the English money, in the fraud's vanity-case. Hence the dastardly clever reference to Elinor Glyn. Next day the Mirror publicly gloated over the success of its mountebankery...
...course, he always has amazingly clever men under him. You might think he accomplished his wonders through the much-praised devolving of responsibility. But he doesn't. He is an autocrat...
...obtained Mabel with a clever mirage of Marriage, that sole, safe landmark on the foggy horizon of an English waitress...
...Blue Life. An ugly, shy orphan youth with money falls into the hands of a barefoot carpenter with a devilish clever mania for astonishing people. The carpenter paints dragonfish on the youth's house and tries to marry him off to a wench with fat legs. Youth escapes carpenter at the expense of his reason, which later returns with a thud...
...that second green during the four rounds of the British Open Championship, last week. Lumbering Cyril Tolley would come by; British Amateur Champion Robert Harris (TiME, June 8) ; slouching Ted Ray, the long-driving professional; lank Arthur Havers, Open Champion two years ago, his lips pursed over the putts; clever Charles Whitcomb, whom a stray cur attacked at one tee and sent out of the play with a lacerated hand...