Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...YORK: Police Commissioner Enright of New York City announced that the police would continue to enforce the Constitution in New York, despite repeal of the state prohibition enforcement law. Anti-Saloon League Superintendent Anderson declared that if Smith were to veto the repeal, such a " shrewd stroke would make the Governor a national figure," and that otherwise New York " might temporarily drop to the level of Maryland and Massachusetts." Governor Smith, who was elected on a "moist" platform, announced that a hearing on the subject of repeal will be held...
Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Exchequer, shrewd and tactful business man, but without any persional magnetism...
...most significant feature of last week's deliberation was the diplomatic duel over Syria. Ismet Pasha, a small shrewd-looking man, with a smile and courtly manners, and a reputation for diplomatic skill, lives right up to all his name means. His frank statement that the Turkish troops now on the Syrian border were sent there to " drive a hard bargain with the French" can only mean one of two things-bluff or business. The situation is extremely delicate and might lead to war between France and Turkey on the smallest inadvertent provocation by local troops. Neither Turkey...
ZANDER THE GREAT-Shrewd mixture of comedy and melodrama on an Arizona ranch. Alice Brady cast in the first play worthy of her talents...
...aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk English. He would rather talk no English than broken English. But many people underrate his knowledge of the language. You will find that Gatti knows about as much English...