Word: opportunistic
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Rheumy old Paul von Hindenburg moves slowly but with exceeding thoroughness. Last week he did what the head of almost any other state would have done months ago. He had a personal interview with the Leader of the Opposition. All the years that the Austrian-born opportunist Adolf Hitler has been gaining political power in Germany, President von Hindenburg had never even seen him. Last week Hitler was summoned to the Presidential Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. Tactfully changing his brown shirt for a long dark overcoat and a derby hat. Fascist Adolf arrived, his smudge of a mustache twitching like...
...Cardinals have no one with Grove's control, but they have Wild Bill Hallahan who throws the ball with blinding speed and has the knack of winning games. They have Burleigh Grimes, greatest of the spitball school, an opportunist, a fine money-player. They have such able right-handers as Jesse Haines, seasoned in other world series, and Sylvester Johnson...
...cause to master an unbiased, judicious view of the situation of which they are a part. On one side lies emotional fanaticism, on the other, indecision. The Scrubwomen affair has provided fuel for much vari-coloured fire which includes the extremely red, the chronic critic of established authority, the opportunist with a personal grudge, and the sincere knight errant of the wronged...
...General Election of last spring all Liberals stood together. Shoulder to shoulder fought the witty, opportunist youngsters who follow David Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election...
...Opportunist. The dark and tousled head of Revolutionist-Extraordinary General José Gonzalo Escobar, who arranged for the killing of 4,000 Mexicans by each other last spring, lay several nights last week on a spotless pillowcase at No. 7750 Colfax Ave., Chicago, home of Vice President Merwin Crawford of Crawford & Associates (printers...