Word: cunningness
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While "Across the Wide Missouri" is an excellent survey of a period vastly underrated in popular history, Mr. Devote's greatest contribution lies in his analysis of true pioneers. The mountain men, the visionary merchants doomed to failure, and the Indians were components of a complex society that influenced the...
Miss Shen's tactics seemed even more cunning. Said she: "I definitely have no intention of running. How could I, who have neither money nor power, time nor leisure, compete with the others?" Miss Shen said she would rather nurse wounded soldiers. Naturally, with the soldiers' vote to...
There are few greater roles-or grislier ones. In Medea, the wife whom Jason has ignominiously deserted in order to make a more advantageous marriage, are mingled all a woman's hate, an Asiatic princess' stung pride, a sorceress' cunning, a barbarian's violence.
To raise money for some obscure and irrelevant fund, the girls of Simmons College last week auctioned off--sight unseen--dates with a Tufts man, an M.I.T. man for seven dollars, and the Harvard man--o woo of woes--sold for six dollars and fifty cents. The Simmons girls, showing...
Said South Carolina's big James Richards : "We saw the Communist leaders in Italy and France and England. They are tough, hard, fanatical, well-financed and clever. They have the whole misery of the people to trade on. The European Governments are mostly made up of men who are...