Word: opportunistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde+2d them. This dumping of the more noisesome rabbit warrens has hardly scratched the surface, and has done little save excite the traditional opportunist shouts about private rights and "American ideals...
...made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends for repartee, whose favorite shaft is "Don't be an airedale...
...epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled on the Odyssey, an archaic old bottle but still...
...other Chinese generals bickered about demobilizing their huge idle armies. Opportunist Feng saw a chance to carve out a little State of his own. Last fortnight he sent his well-paid, well-drilled troops against the walls of Dolonor in southeast Chahar, held by Manchukuan irregulars and two brigades of Japanese regulars. Four times they were thrown back, once demoralized by bombs from seven Japanese planes. Last week, on the fifth assault, Feng's men made a breach in the walls, swept the Manchukuan and Japanese troops across the city and out the east gate. Japanese, unfamiliar with victorious...
Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It is better to call him Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, his father having been a cover-to-cover reader of the works of Horace Greeley. Last week Dr. Schacht said...