Word: cunningness
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Cross My Heart is an unpretentious little musicale. Its attractive qualities are summed up in the word cunning. Songs are not important in its story of a charming girl called Sally Blake (Mary Lawlor) pursued by the Maharajah of Mah-ha and in love with a rich boy masquerading as...
Ivan Bratt will escape being "out of a job" during the liquor investigation by becoming Director of the Paris Office of the great Swedish ball bearing firm called S. K. F. (which controls the French ball bearing industry). Thus Dr. Bratt will receive the large salary which he frankly admits...
Mr. Pancake's supposititious cable was written in the code of the Commercial Cable Co. (I. T. & T. subsidiary). This code consists of 5-letter words, which can be joined in pairs to enjoy the 10-letter rate. But it could be deciphered by anyone with a code catalog...
But if Mr. Pancake had wished to be extraordinarily cunning, excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919...
"Chickens and turkeys are a bad mixture. Turkeys convey gapeworms to chickens, and chickens convey blackhead to turkeys. Raise one or the other, but not both unless you can keep them well separated." "$2,500,000 worth of cabbages went into sauerkraut in a recent year. About one-seventh the...