Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are other times in the program when White is a blues singer--a pretty good one, but just another blues singer. He is clever, warmly humorous, a crowd pleaser. He sings One Meatball and the audience laughs; he sings Jericho and the audience claps in rhythm and joins in the chorus. He is an entertainer with...
...Angeles, announced that she was definitely not the girl in the picture. As for the little boy, it couldn't be Coco because he was never that plump. Gabrielle even wondered whether the painting might be a forgery. "Even the Louvre," said she, "can sometimes be fooled by clever people...
...limiting himself to collegiate themes, Ashenhurst lays himself open to book and lyric situations which are most familiar to his audience. And yet, by searching diligently for originality, he has come up with a show that is clever and fresh, a job which was appreciated thoroughly by the capacity audience that filled Sanders last night...
...income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend our money. It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The collectors, clever and sly, who compute here, have gone far beyond our poor power to add and subtract...
Gilbert proved "a clever, bright boy, who was extremely lazy," and a rather unpromising young man, very tall and very skinny, who came averagely out of Kings College, London, and took a minor civil service job. Soon, to appease the boredom, he was squiggling little poems and doodles...