Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frank and fertile; filled with incessant, lifesize laughter. It tells of two vaudeville strollers who buy a small town hotel and mingle intrepidly with the lives of the peasants. Both Mr. Gleason and Miss Webster are unfailingly ribald, and the evening is made more so by the shrewd performance of an unknown, one Harry Tyler, as the broken-down vaudeville hoofer...
Some newspapers seized eagerly upon this rumor. The San Francisco Examiner printed the picture of the beauteous Miss Franck, professional dancer, heading it "PRO and KAHN." What actually happened: In Paris Roger Kahn had his picture taken with Miss Franck standing near the wing of an airplane. Shrewd, the Parisian photographers mailed both Miss Franck and Mr. Kahn 25 pictures, bill enclosed. Shrewder, Miss Franck sold them to the Daily News together with a vague rumor. Thereupon she received many thousands of dollars' worth of publicity. But she is not engaged to Mr. Kahn...
...kidnappers snatched up Charley Ross and his older brother Walter. Walter was six years old. He knew the street where he lived and the house number. He could remember faces and places. Shrewd, the baby-snatchers threw him aside; people took him home. But Charley disappeared...
...Shrewd...
...TIME, Aug. 16 you print a good letter from Mrs. Cecilia Graham Brown objecting to your printing "Shrewd" as the caption to an account of a dishonest act. On p. 24 of this same number you have another article of very much the same kind under the heading "Shrewd." This isn[t only the second time you have done it either. I remember its having happened before. It hurts me every time you do it. A dishonest action isn't "Shrewd...