Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spotlight is supposed to use a six-ounce stein for his nickel brew. Local pourers suspect his heads foam unusually high. Another tavern on 96th Street sells ten cent beer in nine-ounce glasses, and five cent helpings in four-ounce steins. The profit here still goes to the clever samaritan who paid for the television set over your head...
...Ralph Richardson), an embassy butler in London. Baines is detested by his tight-lipped wife, idolized by the ambassador's young son Felipe (Bobby Henrey), and loved by an embassy typist (Michele Morgan) whom he in turn loves. Out of this emotional tangle, Author Greene has built a clever, suspenseful tale. Borrowing Henry James's trick of using the eyes of children as peepholes into adult passions, Greene centered the story on little Felipe...
...Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present) is clever, if weighty; whether the one attribute offsets the other will depend on the reader...
...distinguishes herself as a real five-star nogoodnick throughout--feels otherwise, and manages to make the two of them acutely unhappy for twenty years, at the end of which time they fall violently in love, reveal their burning passions to each other, but part forever due to a clever bit of trickery on the part of the sister...
...clever, ugly young man opened a private school in an English village, hoping to support his new wife by drumming Latin into boys' heads. Few came to Samuel Johnson's school; one of those who did was 19-year-old David Garrick, son of a shabby-genteel army captain. Davy was a poor scholar, preferring to do impersonations rather than homework ; he would even listen at the keyhole of the Johnson bedroom and later mimic the schoolmaster's clumsy gallantries. When the school collapsed for lack of students, the awkward Johnson and the terrier-like Garrick...