Word: cunningness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1934, she admits gloomily, Germans echoed the sentiment of her hotel maid, who gave thanks that "we Germans have Adolf Hitler sent by God to help us." But by the next year Germans had begun talking in words that were oblique and ambiguous. They sang more than they cheered...
Eggs, Baskets, Bets. Last week the "guardian" was playing the Pilsudski game for all it was worth. Having recently visited Führer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel...
Thereupon Banker Giannini himself took a bold propagandistic step. To squelch SEC charges that he took more money from his empire than he admitted, A. P. (who has lately been closeted with cunning Pressagent Edward L. Bernays) released a complete statement of his net worth, including cash, securities, salary, insurance...
On the other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a...
In the hands of Georges Braque, who took it up almost simultaneously, of Juan Gris, a young Spaniard who took it in 1911 and made it charming, and of Picasso, cubism made cunning use of all that painters know about form and color in themselves-from such elementary facts that...