Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place." It had been often similarly spoken of before and the whole question taken up before the courts which had completely acquitted Mr. Taggart. People marvelled at Miss Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land. Anyway, Tom threatened suit against her† for $100,000, and the name "Tom Taggart" was subsequently changed to "Sam Maddock" (same number of letters to avoid typographical difficulty). But 135,000 copies had already been sold and there had been publicity...
Meanwhile, Il Duce, shrewd wooer of privacy on his official vacation, which began last week, arrived from the Republic of San Marino by motor (see above), sought the quay at Riccione, slipped unremarked on board a sailboat with his family...
...last week by the miners 367,650 to 333,036. Rationally considered, this rejection displayed considerable mass common sense among the miners, for Premier Baldwin had already announced that the bishops proposal was not acceptable to the Government and consequently there existed no chance of putting it into effect. Shrewd Laborites deplored, however, the psychological effect of this rebuff to the potent and, in this instance, sympathetic Church of England...
...Shrewd, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz, partners, bachelors, garment merchants, stipulated a condition: Mae Jordan should not receive payment for doing all the housework of their apartment unless she should sweep the floors northward on odd days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...
Last week, bowling along in its perennial path through the heavens, the Earth fell in with some company that it always enjoys on or about Aug. 10-a shower of meteors from the constellation Perseus, probably remnants of "Tuttle's Comet of 1862," now disintegrated. Some of the shrewd little two-legged organisms that scurry hither and thither on the Earth's surface had known of the event in advance and were watching what they call their "northwest" skies to see the meteors come whizzing into terrestrial atmosphere. The latter, being thicker than interstellar ether, caused the hurtling...