Word: neatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bristle with original insights, much painfully close research went into them: for "The Jacobins" he read the minutes of their meetings verbatim, and can produce the uncanny effect of conveying his audience into a hot Jacobin policy session. Which, with a group of non-illusioned Harvard men is the neatest trick of the term...
...woman can conceivably resist for long, isn't resisted for long by either Miss Williams or Miss Ball. He ends up married to Miss Williams, but not without a brief intermediate marriage of convenience, cooked up by Wynn, to the red-head. In one of the neatest speeches of the year, Miss Ball yells her red head off about being the goat of it all, and Wynn comes to the rescue, thus balancing off the foursome. The economic motive is present, too, in the form of a two million dollar libel suit which starts the whole thing going and disappears...
...return match at Oak Ridge, the C.I.O. was still counting on the lure of the 18½? pay raise it had already won in rubber, auto and steel. But it had still found no answer to the A.F.L.'s neatest trick: a $100-reward offer for proof that the C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers were not Communist-dominated. So far, there were no takers...
Hogarth had an explanation of his own. In one of the neatest esthetic credos in English, he described what he was trying for: "variety without confusion, simplicity without nakedness, richness without tawdriness, distinctness without hardness, quantity without excess...
...store had placed an order for 50,000 pens (retail value: $625,000). At week's end, 30,000 pens (including 12,000 mail orders) had been sold. By selling the first ball-bearing pen in the U.S., it looked as if Gimbel's had pulled the neatest merchandising trick of the season...