Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Probationer Abroad, by Eduardo Andrade, agreeably supplies us with information not readily gleaned from the public prints, and assumes so pleasantly that we know much more than we do concerning literary and political affairs of the Continent. The Book Reviews are capital. The Theatre department resumes its customary dryly shrewd observations, while in Letters from Celebrated Persons we are this month delighted with an epistle from William Congreve to Eugene O'Neil...
...resplendent crowd ogled one another, visited back and forth, chatted and chattered. They were waiting for the curtain to rise on the world's premiere of Resurrection, the opera by Franco Alfano based on Tolstoy's pity-evoking novel, the opera personally selected last summer by Mary Garden shrewd in showmanship, for her next important vehicle. The performance was called a triumph...
...play was courageous at least. The author deliberately attacked the shrewd, irreverent group that eats luncheon at the Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan, jests bitterly at life and works. Mr. Seldes, though much in their line of work, has never been a member of the group. When he set out to write an impression of their home life and their hilarity, he put his head squarely in the lion's mouth. Whereupon the lion on the opening night roared happily and closed his jaws...
Basso Feodor Chaliapin announced that next year he will have his own opera company. "Who will be in it?" asked the skeptical. "Wait and see," replied shrewd S. Hurok, Chaliapin Manager. "Where will it play?" they asked. "In larger U. S. cities, in Cuba and Mexico," answered S. Hurok. "What operas will it give?" "The Barber of Seville" boomed Chaliapin, the Barber...
...Pennsylvania county. William T. Tilden found that he could get stories into magazines, although even his best friends agreed that his literary proficiency was none too good. Last week on an inside sheet of the Tampa Morning Tribune, a famed baseball manager turned his valorous name to shrewd and blatant...