Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minds of Premier Baldwin and Arthur Pugh, chairman of the Trade Union Council. Then "a memorandum by Sir Herbert Samuel" was made public. It purported to represent merely his own personal idea of a workable compromise. Even to blockheads it was evident that this document was a shrewd synthesis of the views held by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Pugh...
...Bradley, who once owned the Del Prado hotel in Chicago and whose racing stable, the Idle Hour Farm, has derived many benefits from a clothing store he formerly conducted on Madison Street, near Clark; J. E. Griffith, owner of Canter and of some profitable phosphate beds; W. J. Salmon, shrewd Manhattan real estate operator; William Ziegler Jr., baking powder magnate; Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, owner of Rockman, (bromo seltzer) ; I. B. Humphreys, Denver mine-owner; C. Frank Croissant, Florida real estate operator; Mrs. George B. Cox, shrewd wife of a shrewd Ohio politician; and best known of all, a gentleman...
Wilde is a playwright exceedingly sensitive to production. The Actors' Theatre has done amazingly well by him this time and the results are most diverting. Lucille Watson, Patricia Collinge, Reginald Owen, Vernon Steele and Dudley Digges were shrewd selections for the various delicately incisive roles. Strangely enough even the epigrams seem to have survived sturdily-"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"-"Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others"-"Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel quite certain they mean something else."-"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic...
...Servant in the House. The long list of the season's revivals has finally included this old success of 18 years ago. It is a badly dated play about a butler who resembled and is symbolically identified with Christ. The shrewd skeptic of this inquiring day will say that the philosophy is obvious and behind the times. Even the most careless of steady theatre-goers will recognize the flagrant artificiality and the veteran creakiness of the structure. Walter Hampden gives his usual correct and melodious performance...
...qualified by winning the Indiana state contest (TIME, March 1). Other doughty state champions were there at Evanston: a forceful South Dakotan with an oration on prohibition; a West Virginian propounding that "Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier "Red" Robinson (his home is in Anderson, Ind.), who, when he found Illinois humming with talk about that week's triple murder, scrapped his prepared speech and got up another one overnight called "The Eleventh Commandment." The seven judges were...