Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newman can outwrite the cleverest of the sophisticates. His literary manner is a nimble and adaptable instrument, bubble-light, steel-keen. His taste is of the highest degree of nicety, his appreciations broadly tolerant He is courageously frank, never self-consciously clever. Above all, he has what is usually lacking among our native critics in Music as in the other Arts?a profound background of intelligent scholarship...
...Senate handicapped by the antagonism of a large part of the old guard. Will he win them over? He is as good a business man as Hanna. Will he be as clever a politician...
Whether Robert Louis Stevenson's place is among the great ones of literature or whether his writings are merely those of an exceedingly clever second-rater must be decided by time and the critics, but the question is not one which concerns his biographer. The facts about Stevenson have all come from persons who were more interested in preserving his character than in portraying the man himself. The result has been the creation of a myth, a paragon of virtues, but nowhere a hint of his limitations, his lapses from the accepted path, which undoubtedly influenced his writings...
...Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spoke at Cincinnati two weeks after his fellow lawyer, Secretary of State Hughes, whom he called "the clever lawyer who falls back on methodical ignorance-to shield his client, President Coolidge." Mr. Colby then proceeded into the stormy state of Indiana to awaken echos that had just been stirred by his other fellow lawyer, John W. Davis...
...Clever dropped-curtain-speculations as to the prospective "in-laws", as told by the head of each family, furnished the one new piece of technique in the play. The appearance of the English family on the front of the stage, preparatory to their entrance to Col. Draper's suite, puzzled the unsophisticated members of the audience, but, once the idea had penetrated, they chuckled for the rest of the performance...