Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheme was to form a money pool of shrewd, rich friends and buy out the scared liquor interests of Sweden for a song. The doctor's wife, a Baroness in her own right, and other influential connections at Court and among politicians, facilitated Schemer Bratt by contriving to postpone the enactment of national prohibition, while his pool bought out the liquor barons cheap...
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Like Alfred Loewenstein, shrewd Belgian financier, now dead by a fall from his plane, Valparaiso's Loewenstein uses his airplane to increase his business. To every customer who buys $25 worth of groceries for cash he gives a lengthy air ride-to the chagrin of his torpid competitors...
Since tobacco is a state monopoly in Rumania, such punishment of a debased and vicious class seemed not only moral but shrewd...
...name is Olga Baklanova; her address is c/o Paramount-Famous-Players-Lasky Corp., Hollywood, Calif. Compared with her, Theda Bara and the oldtime cinema-bad-women were fudge-makers. She was born in Russia and first achieved fame in the Moscow Art Theatre. Morris Guest, shrewd, brought her to the U. S. She played the nun in the road show of The Miracle. Then the movies got her. In The Street of Sin, The Man Who Laughs and her present triumph, Forgotten Faces, she demonstrates that she is, far and away, the most voluptuous cinemactress...