Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boom promoters. His energy was tremendous. His big smile and loud, harshly good-natured laugh would persuade strong men to work and inspire other gamblers' confidence. But, if necessary, Harry Sinclair could drive strong men to work and outsmart the money fellows. He was, and still is, as shrewd as they come in the whole shrewd oil game. His big laugh and heavy hand are the foils of a cunning mind...
...Mack or Sergeant Michael Devlin as he is called in the play-bill, was a fussy and bumptious redcoat, though shrewd, daring and romantic withal. He was making love to dope flend's little sister as the curtain fell after all the villians were on their way to the gallows. "The Scarlet Fox," excepting several ridiculous moments of April-fooling, is a pretty fair cock-and-bull dream. In it you may enjoy some unbelievably veracious acting by Miss Marie Chambers as the chatelaine of a Canadian bagnlo; by Mr. Sam Lee, as a canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney...
Meanwhile the U. S., which has never recognized Soviet Russia, has sold to her since 1923 some $262,000,000 more goods than the U. S. has bought from Russia. Shrewd Ivy Lee observes that so long as the balance continues favorable to the U. S. he can see no validity in "the suggestion that in buying Russian goods we are providing funds for [Russian] propaganda activities in the United States. . . . My impression [is] that the so-called Bolshevik propaganda is, in itself, perfectly futile...
...Chinese water colors and all manner of arty things. He drives his own Hispano-Suiza when he is thinking fast. He works with, but often annoys, the police. Finally, he gets the murderer by applying the theory that a painting is a greater work of skill than a photograph. Shrewd readers should be able to spot the murderer on page 330; average readers on page 339; stupid readers on page...
...Shrewd, the anti-Loree interests got the following statements into the newspapers...