Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When shrewd agents of the Jugoslav-Secret Police scurried out from Belgrade they questioned hundreds of peasants, found the boy who had heard someone cry, "Don't touch me. Milica!" Cogitating wisely, the detectives soon evolved a theory. Baroness Irma Molnar, they said with conviction, was strangled by a "woman unknown," probably "named or nicknamed Milica...
...Britain's prime ministers were assembled in London for the Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Not without much shrewd wangling and entirely "on his own," Painter Chandor got them all to sit together for a monster canvas which, when finished, was given a place of honor in the Government's pavilion at Wembley and later hung permanently in the Colonial Office. This piece of work entrenched Painter Chandor, at 27, in the very front rank of his profession...
...Shrewd Norfolk farmers in the east of England were reported last week to be bartering pails of milk for pints of water. Half round the world in Santiago de Cuba there were street fights and stabbings when the water-carts passed. Prolonged drought was parching many lands, but rural England and Cuba seemed to suffer most. Scientists recalled that, although man can go without food for two months and live, without water he shrivels and dies in from six days...
...defense was taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning, sonorous orator. Whereas M. Poin-caré had piled the Chamber's rostrum mountains high with notes and documents, shrewd B'rer Briand with a droll little gesture laid one of his visiting cards on the stand before him and commenced his spellbinding quite extempore...
...professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, now an employe of Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis pharmaceutical manufacturers, has a process of quickly and efficiently extracting from cod livers the vitamins which promote growth and bone formations. Food manufacturers have bid for licenses to the Marcus process. To exploit that demand, shrewd businessmen last week organized for Dr. Marcus and themselves an International Vitamin Corp., with 200,000 no-par shares...