Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various other verbal flights by Critics Roger Fry, Thomas Craven, et al., Author Herter turns a cold and logical eye. Her shrewdest stroke is in showing up the common legend that the Cubists got their program from a famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry...
...trouble in showing Cleopatra as ''the shrewdest and most intelligent woman of her time." She roughed it with Caesar during their hard pressed military campaign, was a model of reserve as his mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began...
...Loopholes. That Senator Schwellenbach felt he needed time to study the Tax Loophole Bill last week was by no means unnatural. It is designed to keep the shrewdest tax lawyers in the U. ,S. up long after bedtime, and to make paying taxes, if only on the ground of the effort involved in dodging them, an economical procedure. Major provisions of the bill...
...Rumania, where the Royal Family have never been rated wealthy enough to keep a $1,350,000 yacht, much less buy one, His Majesty's purchase of the Nahlin came last week as a crashing fact to back up years of rumor that "Mme Lupescu is the shrewdest money-maker in Rumania." She is said to have got her working capital from people who wanted things wheedled out of Carol II, later was reported branching out into Bucharest real estate, finally to have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw...
...envious" of Germany's increased Brazilian trade, was trying to spoil Brazil's German cotton market by forcing Brazilians to pay higher prices for their industrial imports. Significantly the Fiihrer appointed as Brazilian Ambassador Dr. Karl Ritter, foreign trade specialist and one of the Reich's shrewdest diplomats...