Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liechtenstein, Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Trappau et de Jägerndorf, lord of vast estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and owner of the famed Art Gallery in Vienna which bears his name, decided that it was time for him to take a shrewd step in respect to the inheritance taxes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, for the Prince is now aged four score and eight...
...There is cause for optimism!" cried Mr. Cosgrave, proudly revealing that while the national debt of the U. S. is $160 per citizen, that of France $456, and that of England $814, the shrewd citizens of the Irish Free State are nationally in debt but $35 each, or $104,000,000 in toto...
...assured that his name will live with that of Marie Harel, immortal creator of fromage camembert, to whom a monument was recently erected and dedicated by onetime President Alexandre Millerand (TIME, April 23). Modest Culinary Immortal Dr. Gauducheau then explained that his discovery is quite simple, merely a shrewd adaptation of the physician's hypodermic and the chemist's skill to the problems of the chef. A pigeon, chicken, goose, pheasant, sheep, pig or even cow is firmly secured and a hypodermic injection made into the heart. Before this organ ceases to function the secret hypodermic fluid...
Milton D. Crandall, the shrewd and sportsmanlike promoter who was so nearly injured by his surly beneficiary, is a rather small man, partially blind, and an orphan. As a youth, without father or mother, he was thrust upon the world in Baltimore. At that time quite completely deprived of sight, he entrusted himself to a surgeon who, in the face of overwhelming odds, restored...
...pleasanter lunatic than José Marinat perhaps never lived. Years have passed since he first won the hearts of shrewd peasants in the suburbs of Tarragona by three peculiarities. He would work without pay. He loved to tell stories to children. And to toss "Poor José" an old guitar was the prelude to an evening of wild, haunting melody...