Word: cunningness
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When news reached Moscow that Manchukuo troops under Japanese officers had just attacked the Soviet frontier and killed several Red Army guards, the Soviet Press jittered anew against England. Russians read bug-eyed that the Greek Republic has been friendly to Dictator Mussolini, that last week's coup to...
"Soldiers, I give you this advice. Be cunning, be savage. Face the enemy one by one, two by two, in the fields and mountains. Do not take white clothes. Do not mass as now; hide and strike suddenly. Steal up, snipe and murder singly."*
France had not recovered from the shock of revolution when the Prince de Condé first met his appalling mistress. The last of his family, weak, lazy, amiable, vicious, the Prince "had gained nothing from his very distinguished birth but the melancholy grace that marked his tall person, and long...
THE CUNNING MULATTO AND OTHER CASES or ELLIS PARKER, AMERICAN DETECTIVE-Fletcher Pratt-Smith & Haas ($2.50).
For 42 years Ellis Parker, round, short, grey-haired and good-natured, has been a practicing detective in Mount Holly, N. J. (pop. 6,573). He has worked on about 300 cases, principally crimes of violence. According to Fletcher Pratt, "he is probably the best detective in America if not...