Word: cunningness
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When a quizzical child pops a question which Teacher cannot answer, Teacher may frankly admit ignorance and, helpfully, find an answer. Or, if Teacher is lazy, or cunning, or suspicious of the pupil's motive, or enthusiastic about youthful initiative, he may say: "You find out and tell me...
Whether it was Alabama's landslide to Senator Heflin in the early hours of the New Lecture Hall Convention that started the merciless succession of events whose end is not yet, no one can say. While one of the delegates from another state was thundering, "You shall not crucify mankind...
Governor Smith was not convinced that the charges were "fantastic." He summoned a Grand Jury. Last week, swiftly, the Grand Jury indicted Mrs. Knapp on six criminal counts including grand larceny. Women-in-politics, and other citizens, drew no edification from these developments, beyond this: where many a Mr. Feasance...
March Hares. In 1921, this playfully preposterous comedy by Harry Wagstaff Gribble made two appearances on the Manhattan stage. Twice, with strenuous and pathetic spasms, like a fish in the grass, it flopped. There was a fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played...
Though Author Gribble was said to have supervised the direction of the present production, many faults could be found in the manner of its production. The leading members of the cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a...