Word: opportunistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shoehorned humbly into a group of presumably sane people-his host, a lawyer, two girl friends, a housekeeper, a butler, a detective and the host's sister- Parker progressively webs them all in their own words and impales them on insane lip-logic. An opportunist juggling ideals, he shifts positions faster than the others, stares long & unfazed into their faces, razzle-dazzles them with winning sophistries until he has confused, ingratiated, amazed, enraged, baffled and terrified them...
...campaign promises can be taken to have any save an opportunist meaning, the Democratic victory of November 8 should presage a downward revision of tariff rates. With such a possibility in mind, Dr. Benjamin Anderson has stated in the latest issue of the Chase Economic Bulletin that "the great international conference for the reduction of tariffs which the new administration is expected to call is going to work a radical change in this whole American picture, and the whole world picture." An equitable balance of trade has always been the basis of satisfactory commercial relations, and, according to Dr. Anderson...
...Hindenburg. The old Field Marshal whose mind is a little slow at following the niceties of political intrigue put his rheumatic foot down at handing the Chancellorship to the man who had opposed him for the presidency, the man whom he secretly considers a ne'er-do-well opportunist...
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...