Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enemy to the Russian Orthodox Church is the Soviet Government. But Soviets can be subtle. To combat orthodoxy they chose not atheism or agnosticism, but Baptist and Methodist missionaries. The Soviet plan: to foster Baptist activities and thus enfeeble orthodoxy. This was in 1921. Last week the shrewd Soviets had to admit they had blundered...
...Ford, after deciding upon his model change invested heavily in General Motors stock. Inasmuch as the General Motors stock increased in value somewhat in proportion to the stories concerning Ford difficulties with its new models, so Mr. Ford made on General Motors what he lost on his reorganization program. "Shrewd!" said many a Ford-worshipping U. S. citizen, "Henry can't be beat." But closest Ford observers received this tale as only the last and best Ford joke...
...Wrote shrewd Interviewer Charles D. Isaacson of the New York Morning Telegraph: "The little lady is furiously upset. She does not like the way she has been received and she has, like the overfed child, a dislike for all the present life. . . . I see a cynicism in her manner, a tightness in her face, a tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti...
Contrastingly, Canada's N. C. E. is a shrewd publicist. In 23 Canadian cities and towns are its committees, busy, responsible. No educators may serve on these. Thus is the laity made education-conscious, made to share Canada's educators' responsibility and work...
...loudest journalistic uproars in New England history, was an underlying chain of circumstances not visible in the simple announcement of the sale but well known to rival journalists, cranks, alarmists and vigilant patriots; a chain of circumstances which non-New Englanders viewed variously as a bit of shrewd industrial mechanism or as a sinister instrument to shackle Public Opinion, to strangle the Freedom of the Press...