Word: shrewdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...joyous banquet was given, last week, by certain smart, shrewd citizens of Paris. All are telephone subscribers. Three years ago they formed an association to threaten and intimidate the Ministry of Commerce (posts & telegraphs) into providing better, faster telephone connections...
Result: much new and efficient telephone equipment has been Hoovered into service by dynamic, persuasive M. Bokanowski.* Last week he presided with dancing eyes over the banquet given at Paris by those smart, shrewd telephone subscribers who instigated the whole reform. They, pleased by the recent marked acceleration of service, gallantly tendered the banquet, last week, to 100 telephone-women chosen by lot to represent their Nimble Sisterhood...
...Lane Bryant, dressmaker, had a shrewd idea that appealed from its start to all women of ample figure. Says she: "It was my firm belief that fashion was slighting such women, was making smart dressing difficult for them. Merely supplying 'large sizes' of current styles was entirely wrong. What the woman of ample figure wanted, what I feel she must have, was a redesigning, a restyling of current fashions along slenderizing, beautifying lines. That was the simple idea that prompted me. . . . That is the idea which is today carried out in every garment we make...
...they admitted a shrewd arriére-pensée: "We will, by actually stopping broadcasting, be able to determine by test if the public is in favor of our return to the air. Our equipment and installation will be kept intact...
...Shrewd, International sells its blades and holders chiefly through chain and mail order stores?F. W. Woolworth; McCrory; J. C. Penney; Sears, Roebuck; Montgomery Ward; American News...