Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shrewd, he delayed his vacation beyond the usual date, allowing an impression to seep out that he would not leave Sofia this summer. Then, without warning, the royal motor car purred discreetly from palace to railway station. On the platform stood only one official: Premier André Liaptchev...
...SOLDIERS!" the proclamation began?a classic opening, and one much used by the late Napoleon Bonaparte. A shrewd opening, too, for it would attest that the boy-king's first thought was for his army. Excellent! Now presses were humming. Soon the first state paper of King Michael was eagerly read...
...Nicholas, 23, a youth of no experience in statecraft; and the other two regents, both over 60, and both "Bratiano men," are the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Rumania, Miron Cristea, and Supreme Court Chief Justice G. V. Buzdugan. The choice of Chief Justice Buzdugan was especially shrewd because, if the Regency Act is unconstitutional, as many jurists contend, it can only be declared so by the Supreme Court...
Lastly Chief Justice Buzdugan strode forward, determined not to be laughed at. Shrewd, he muttered his oath rapidly and almost inaudibly, scarcely attracting the attention of His Majesty, whose eyes still rested with a twinkle on the unfortunate Patriarch...
They are "he." Together they have written his books in fruitful collaboration. They alone know why his heroes are so often scientists, and even why the love lives of these scientists-in-fiction are so disconcertingly unscientific. They are a dry, shrewd pair, les freres Boex. Last week the elder brother returned to Paris from a tour of the U. S. His comments...