Word: cunningness
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(6 of 10) speak in Germany and was arrested and deported by the Gestapo. After the out break of World War II, Barth issued a flurry of powerful, evangelical epistles opposing Naziism. "The enterprise of Adolf Hitler," he wrote, "with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and...
Still and all, the picture is worth seeing, and what makes it worth seeing is the work of Angela Lansbury. She plays Berry-berry's mother as a woman with the brain of a flea, the heart of a whale, the tongue of a toad, the devotion of a...
In fact, Nim is more of a trap than a game. The canny con man, with all the possible combinations locked in his head, graciously allows his victim to go first (see diagram). Since Nim's starting setup (7-5-3-1) is a winning combination itself, whoever tampers...
Miss Harris is cunning and vitality personified. Appearing for her big scene in a short pink dress and curls, she looks like the young Shirley Temple. Her ensuing seduction of Jonathan on Mamma's bed is as hilarious a scene as I can recall. And when Dad's corpse enters...
But it was at Aix, where the European allies met in 1818 to divide up the spoils after Napoleon's final defeat, that the Rothschilds elevated themselves from moneyed power to financial grandeur. Secretly manipulating European markets to the point of imminent crash, the Rothschilds managed to discredit rival...