Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behavior is characterized by frankness and energy. He is shrewd but not furtive. He is persistent rather than intense. He is not inclined to be sentimental; he avoids affectation. His nature seldom goes to extremes; that is, it seldom degenerates into the pervert, seldom rises above average to the genius. Interests that have attracted him with exceptional force, interests to which he has given himself most unreservedly, are only two: finance and religion. He is not notable as farmer, politician, soldier, artist or scientist...
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...play. To assist him he found George Abbott who, with James Gleason, wrote The Fall Guy. Together they have fashioned a homely fable of those who watch the song and sorrow of metropolitan life from the cheap seats. Clerks and poor boardinghouse folk are their characters. Their touch is shrewd and their comedy genuinely entertaining...
...showered him with hugs and kisses. Composer Harling declared, in a trembling speech, that he was astounded. Nothing like that, he said, had ever happened to him-not even when he was writing cabaret revues in New York. But this incident and the opera-an amiable work, catchy, shrewd, imitative-brought him to the attention of Arthur Hopkins, famed theatrical manager. Mr. Hopkins has never yet produced a musical piece, but he stated four years ago that when the time was ripe he would present "an American opera along new lines." Last week he decided that the hour had come...
King Alfonso. "Spain of course is fortunate in having a King who, in my opinion, is one of the most brilliant men of his years in Europe. He is a very keen, shrewd and observing business man, as well as one of the greatest diplomats that it has ever been my fortune to meet. There is no question but that he is beloved by his people...