Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were brave men in Germany last week who risked their lives for an ideal. The shrewdest brains of the Nazi secret police were trying to find out who they were. Meanwhile in the midst of the greatest exhibition of organized mob hysteria Germany has ever seen, small slips of paper, some printed, some mimeographed, some typed, continued to be circulated surreptitiously from hand to hand. All had the same theme: "Comrades, write NO on your ballots! Every vote of NO is a vote against war, against misery, against famine, concentration camps and murders...
When Rome was no longer too hot to hold him Caesar soon established himself there as one of the shrewdest schemers of a conspiratorial day. He fished to such good purpose in Rome's troubled waters that eventually he caught the great Pompey and the millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome...
Hoarse-voiced Joseph Drummer, one of the shrewdest of Manhattan art dealers, invited critics and the public last week to an exhibition of fancy work. In a season that promises to be one of the richest...
Billy Rose (né Rosenberg), one of the brightest boys ever graduated from New York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times...
Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and shrewdest of that crop of native politicos who have grown up in the islands under U. S. tutelage, was on his way back to the Philippines from the U. S. where he had seen Franklin Roosevelt sign the new Philippine Constitution (TIME, April 1). Before that Constitution was signed and before Filipinos in a plebiscite accepted it, Senor Quezon had laid his plans for becoming President of the Commonwealth. He had entered into a coalition with his onetime political enemies and between them they had agreed to a comfortable division...