Word: cunningness
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Muscle journalism includes the gentle arts of kidnapping, wire tapping, burglary, bribery, plus cunning and unlimited nerve. Frank Carson gave it its name and was one of its chief practitioners. Out of it, in the '20s, came journalistic legends and one ripsnorting play, The Front Page.
Logan Pearsall Smith is a New Jersey-born expatriate of the first diaspora (circa 1880). Smith does not like expatriates of the second dispersion. Least of all does he like their chief anti-Miltonians, Expatriates Ezra Pound and Thomas Stearns Eliot. They, he charges, are Delilahs in a cunning campaign...
This First-Ladylike act set off U. S. journalism's Angry Man: freckly, scowling Westbrook Pegler, who straightway attacked Mrs. Roosevelt as "a cunning and indefatigable conspirator against the rights and independence of the individual American," said her ultimate goal was "some scheme containing the most binding elements of...
Bit by bit, Joyce's friends in Manhattan pieced together a picture of his last months. It was a picture of monstrous ironies. Joyce, the young man who fled from Ireland to live by "silence, exile and cunning," died a destitute refugee from Paris. The mind that thought history...
The best fencer he ever fought, he will tell you, was Joe Levis, 1937 American amateur foil champion. And thereby hangs a tale, for that match was one of Peroy's last exhibition appearances. It was a sports announcer's dream of youth versus age and cunning, and true to...