Word: opportunistic
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Shot 1?Diego Rivera is now no more than an opportunist and an entertainer of tourists...
...clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship is balanced by an uncanny and unfair mastery of diplomatic wiles; a coldblooded, prescient, ruthless opportunist; a calculating and conceited egoist; a cad with occasional instincts for that strange indulgence for which they have no word in their own language, and which they designate by our own expression, 'fair play...
...Taking the profit out of war" is a popular cause and the President would be well justified as a political opportunist to take it away from the Republican Senators who are running the current investigation...
...other movie, which presents Joan Blondell as virtually a loose woman, with an equally loose companion is supposed to be fast moving. It depicts the life of two opportunist gold diggers with hearts of "gold," a millionaire playboy, a divorce, and Paris. They all do pretty well...
...some Republicans, however, Senator Vandenberg appeared more of an opportunist than a liberal. For national party leadership this group suggested Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon who was not up for re-election this year, who took no part in the campaign. No standpatter, Senator McNary has placed himself adroitly half way between the Republican archconservatives and the Republican insurgents. Quick to seize last week's hint he proclaimed: "The Republican Party must have a program and it must be a forward-looking one. ... In my opinion it will keep the faith...