Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Ambassador Saito is the youngest envoy to represent Japan in this country, he is nevertheless regarded as the shrewdest one to come here. Not yet 50, he has already had a brilliant career as a diplomat, having been consul-general at New York and Seattle, Washington...
...Shrewdest aspect of the Libman treatment is his attention to the gall bladder, Gall bladder troubles affect the heart through sympathetic nerves. They also lead to gout. The heart can become as gouty as the big toe and can be as thoroughly cleared of gout by adequate attention to the gall bladder...
...dollar was a dollar and the mark a mark. Today, what with the sum total of the world's defaults, devaluations, regulations, restrictions, registrations, quotas, permits, impounded balances, standstill agreements, stabilization funds or the lack of them, money-changing is a nightmare. Foreign exchange traders are probably the coolest, shrewdest, most tireless and nimble-witted crew in the world, but the Paris correspondent of the New York Times last week declared: "The extraordinarily complicated character of the present situation seems to have discouraged even the most hardened speculators...
...Mike Phipps is a stubby, hard-riding youngster who was a member of Yale's intercollegiate championship team in 1930 and 1932. Like Mills, who also played on the Yale team, he learned polo from the late Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock. Billy Post, whose father is one of the shrewdest judges of ponies in the country, played at Princeton, is handicapped at 7 goals...
Thomas Masaryk created Czechoslovakia. As a professor in Prague he vehemently preached Czech and Slovak nationalism, got himself into bad odor with the Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient...