Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Respectful Englishmen welcomed the Agent General at Dover and arranged his discreet conveyance to a small estate in Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given...
...family is famed in Holland. In the 16th and 17th centuries Sixes were shrewd magistrates of Amsterdam, portly, solid men with provincial sagacity. Burgomaster Jan Six (1618-1700) was something of a visionary. As he walked by the placid River Amstel he heard the clopping of wooden shoes, saw the bright pageantry of Dutch costume, buxom, healthy girls in voluminous skirts, aprons, peaked caps. He loved little, angular Dutch gables, the wide Dutch sky over the flatlands. He knew an advanced, much-mooted artist named Rembrandt and often bought his etchings which caught the homely beauties of life in Holland...
...Last week Pioneer Thompson died. Today the advertising company he fostered is one of America's three biggest.* Its president is Stanley Resor. Its vice president is John Broadus Watson, author of "Homing and Related Activities of Birds." who applies to advertising his profound knowledge of behaviorism, plots shrewd campaigns for Fleischmann's Yeast, Pennsylvania R. R., Lux, Maxwell House Coffee...
Untermeyer's interpretation is shrewd, and his language masterly; but unconvincing his modernized conversation in the mouths of prince and prophet...
...converse of garrulous though ancient Hebrews. It seems that David didn't kill the giant after all. Coming by lucky chance upon dead Goliath, he was clever enough to cut off the giant's head, and claim a superhuman victory. His whole career glittered with similar shrewd opportunism, alternating with cowardly lapses which the loyal Joab covered. Joab did all the killing, David got all the credit...