Word: shrewdest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspiration for this Romeo & Juliet parody (by Sagittarius, Britain's shrewdest satirical versifier, in the New Statesman and Nation) was Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's five-day visit to Moscow, where, as part of his lavish entertainment, he was taken to a gala performance of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff was feted as few foreigners have been in Moscow. Well aware of the recent British drift, especially among left-wing Laborites, away from the U.S. and toward Russia, the Kremlin was trying its best to encourage the trend...
...winter of 1943, aged 77, died Mrs. William Heelis of Sawrey, president-elect of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Association and one of the shrewdest farmers in England's Lake District. Many of the shepherds who followed her to the graveside knew that long, long ago her name had been Beatrix Potter, and that she had come among them from London, where she had written books for children. But they also recalled that anyone who had dared to speak the name of Potter-to say nothing of Peter Rabbit-in the presence of Mrs. Heelis had been shown the door...
...fourth city in the U.S., a brawling industrial center of nearly 2,000,000. The Young Men's Christian Association has grown with it. The chief reason: aged (79), devout Dr. Studer, the world's oldest active Y secretary, and one of the shrewdest Christian gentlemen who ever wore the triangle. Says...
...doctors recognize it as a common and distinct disease. It is high time they did, writes Dr. Alvarez in the current issue of Geriatrics. And when Dr. Alvarez speaks, doctors listen respectfully, for the immensely popular Mayo man is one of the shrewdest diagnosticians...
...this argument the four books listed above are a current contribution. Each of them reveals something about Russia-the force which Henry Adams, one of the shrewdest of U.S. historians and political observers, once saw in the chilling terms of creeping "ice-cap" and "inertia." Part of mankind has long regarded this force as a prime political danger. Part of mankind has long regarded it as its great political hope. Each of these books, in its way, suggests the degree in which man's hope is congealing into man's fate...