Word: craftier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rival tried to take advantage of his sentimental state by robbing him. Hardin merely dropped his money to the floor, then killed the rival when he stooped over to pick it up. Not so deadly a shot as "Wild Bill" Hickok or the great King Fisher, Hardin was craftier and faster on the draw than any man of his time...
...PINCHOT FOR SENATOR. Overhead fluttered a banner with this strange device: VOTERS-DON'T LET REED TAKE YOU FOR ANOTHER SLEIGH RIDE-VOTE FOR PINCHOT. "It's awfully silly," the Governor's ebullient lady confided, "but it makes a good picture." Political tricks and stratagems far craftier than this were going on all over the Keystone State where Democrats and Republicans were winding up their hottest primary campaigns in years. Having tasted blood in 1932, the Democrats were out to mass a thumping vote and carry the state for the first time in half a century. Badly...