Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...
Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
...industry was astonished. Producers marveled that so spry a product of the peepul as James John Walker should have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...
Such items as these would be found in a daily newspaper column about shops and department stores. Such items together with shrewd bits of advice for merchants and customers would interest the thousands who work for stores and the daily millions who visit them. But such a column, now appearing daily in the New York Telegram (Scripps-Howard), signed by a young woman named Alice Hughes,* is unique in modern metropolitan journalism. Ethically inconsistent, U. S. dailies consume tons of paper in chatting about automobiles, amusements, radio, real estate, banks, all of which advertise heavily; but they have hitherto refused...
Charles Clark Younggreen is 37, stocky, with the beginning of a paunch, affable, shrewd; he is ready to talk about anything, but whatever he talks about he is talking business...