Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was a sharp correction of that part of the British press which had been intimating that the President was slipping...
Superintendent Peter P. Walsh of the Pittsburgh police, a corpulent, red-faced person who professed ignorance of any seamy side that Pittsburgh may have and was very much flustered by Senator Reed's sharp questions about lining up the police for Candidate Pepper...
John North Willys, "one of the handsomest executives," the "Little Napoleon" of the automotive industry,* set his pince-nez back on his small, sharp nose. The bustle roused by several hundred enthusiastic Willys-Overland dealers convening at Toledo was slightly disheveling to this trim 53-year-oldster† who "builds automobiles, lives automobiles and talks automobiles." There was, however, no weariness in that long-lipped smile, which can caress a lackadaisical dealer into a "gogetter...
...highest bid that was placed, in a sealed envelope, under a painting. Some of the best painters in England sold their canvases for $5; a painting by Sir John Lavery went for $37. But Augustus John, that swaggering British Van Dyke with his great soft hat and his little sharp beard, is a shrewd business man as well as a capable painter; he knew that when people are watched they are generous but that the offers one seals up in privy envelopes are apt to be mean. His show brought him $25,000, with a top price...
...giant elm tree, estimated to be over 200 years old, which stood on the Oxford Street side of the Agassiz Museum, crashed to the ground early yesterday morning in the midst of a violent thunder shower. It is believed that the weight of the falling water accompanied by the sharp gust of wind occassioned the downfail of the venerable elm. Yesterday's windfall along with the destruction, of the Washington elm in the same manner last year, marks the passing of the two most remarkable trees in New England...