Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only this University, but the entire system of education in this country, is benefited by the bequests of the late Henry Clay Frick. Here was a clear-minded, shrewd business man, a farsighted patriot, who saw how he best might serve his fellow-citizens. He realized the dire needs of America's colleges and went straight to the heart of the matter...
...portrayed by Sir Herbert Tree, Wolsey is the shrewd, stern, diplomat of history, quick to see the turn of the tide, arrogant in his power, forward even in his fall. Miss Mathison's Queen Katharine was good, as her parts usually are. She is best, as always when subdued, tending to become theatrical when roused to any great pitch of emotion. Miss Mackay's Anne Bullen could hardly have been bettered, portraying as it did the willful, attractive personality of Henry's second wife. But the master characterization of all was Lyn Harding's King Henry. The easy going, blustering...
William Hodge has come to Boston in his first new play for ten years, "Fixing Sister," at the Majestic. In some respects this play is like those former familiar vehicles of Mr. Hodge, full of quiet humor and Yankee wit, and again the hero is a "man from home," shrewd, drawling, and lovable. This time, however, he is in different surroundings, for he has chosen to place himself, not in a little village, but in the midst of the society life of New York...
...Harvard football team never faced a real situation before, it faces one today, and one that must be met with shrewd and judicious calculation. There is no call to harp on the old cry of overconfidence; the clippings that are printed in another column do that convincingly from the standpoint of the expert spectator. And as for comparative scores, it may as well be admitted at once that they are almost meaningless, unless all the antics of wind and weather and moods and training can be allowed for with delicate accuracy...