Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner waxed, two dapper gentlemen at a nearby table saw Lord Birkenhead look upon the .wine of Madeira-and it was red. Then the dapper gentlemen began a spelling match, quite innocently, between themselves. Soon they, shrewd sharpers, were betting on each other's spelling prowess. When the game was ripening to high stakes one of the so dapper gentlemen approached the Earl of Birkenhead. "We know Your Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being...
...whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers, had his resignation accepted last week. For months he has been urging the inexpediency of the Cabinet's confiscatory oil and land program and its suppressive religious policy. A state financier of high ability, Big Pin Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt last week when it was announced that he would succeed Alfonso Reyes as Mexican Ambassador at Paris...
...spite of mules and in spite of poor housing conditions, the doughboy must eat. "No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer," said the lewd but shrewd General John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. As everyone knows, the U. S. Army gets no beer from the Government. As for the beef-very little of that can be bought with a daily per capita food appropriation of 35c. (The Navy is allowed...
Meanwhile copies of the World and other publications which printed the Chaplin story in extenso were being smuggled into England by shrewd transatlantic stewards, who hawked them to those able and willing...
...Shrewd observers noted that this ridiculously large naval concentration can be moved within 24 hours to a point off the Mexican coast, should the Mexican Government fulfill its announced determination to seize certain U. S. oil lands in Mexico as "forfeited" under the new Mexican oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926). Thus the U. S. forces sent to Nicaragua last week constitute a two-edged threat...