Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks at international relations with a shrewd, ironic eye. He maintains a certain detachment, remaining an American, in contrast with a good many American diplomats, notably with Ambassador Page, who when he was in London became more British than the British themselves. But probably this is easier to do now than it used to be. Americans abroad always used to have a certain sense of inferiority, especially in England, where they could not get over the feeling that they were more or less Colonials in contact with an older and surer civilization. Now the United States is the most powerful...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN?Closing performances of the shrewd tale of how to make money and lose it behind the scenes on Broadway...
...Clinical Examination of the Blood, Serum Diagnosis of Disease, Physical Diagnosis. Case Histories in Medicine, Social Service and the Art of Healing. Differential Diagnosis, What Men Live By, Laymen's Handbook of Medicine, Rewards and Training of a Physician, Social Work. His later books reveal a shrewd estimate of the popular intelligence. While they never decoy the reader into bypaths, still they are in startling contrast to the keen methodology of his earlier, more scholarly tomes...
...promise but never perform modifications of the genus Homo; all religions, calling as they do for the exercise of powers unknown to physics, mathematics and biology; all psychology?even behaviorism, from which the "psyche" is removed?since it has yet to demonstrate its actuality in a finite universe; all shrewd, unassailable Axioms, Methods, Customs, Creative Intellects, magazine articles and learned treatises on Education; all economic theory, which must presuppose an unreal Economic Man to operate; all Law, which is based upon fictitious "rights" and "justice"; all peace proposals, unctuous or bellicose; all "international thought...
...Meighan has succeeded in getting a good story. It tells of a major-league baseball player in the spring training camps of Florida. He is a pitcher who gets fired and plunges into real estate. There is of course a girl. Ring Lardner is the author, contributing' his shrewd and humorous observations on baseball players' foibles gathered in his old days as a sports writer...