Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with sacred art-works and in the tone one uses to inquire after another's liver: "Have you been liberated from religious beliefs ?" There are appalling dinner conversations, loquacious walks about Paris, disconnected imperies, prodigious exclamations on a thousand passing matters-the necessity for affection, archaeological finds, the shrewd drinking of Rabelais, the greatness of Louis XV as a voluptuary, "kisses for lepers" (charity to the sick), an "innocent game" with an old, false-toothed witch in her carriage...
...kindly, unpretentious person. When you know that he devotes months to the perfection of a type of story that most Saturday Evening Post writers concoct in a fortnight, you add conscience to his qualities. It is thus that you find him, and have pleasure in his work-a shrewd, painstaking etcher of his fellows, who dilutes the acid of irony with the milk of human kindness...
Nobody heard what was said, but the implication was patent. At the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, the referee, bending above Pugilist Tom Gibbons, had looked with shrewd and not unkindly eyes at his split mouth, puffed face, smashed nose, blotchy body, put a question to him. In 30 seconds more, the bell would start the twelfth round of Gibbons' battle against Eugene Tunney, a handsome fellow with a pompadour, a mild face, who sat facing him from the opposite corner of the ring. Tiered in darkness, 40,000 watchers perspired freely. They saw the solicitous referee bend above Gibbons. They...
Moreover, in the hasty departure of Professor Baker from Cambridge to New Haven there was much which seemed unbecoming. To many of us it appeared a shrewd Yankee trick, similar to those business coups whereby one company lures away the consulting engineer or sales manager who have been the mainstay of a rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse...
...higher learning is of little value unless it is put to practical usefulness. If, in studying for higher things, the young man becomes unfitted for lower things and regards his diploma as an Open Sesame to the wealth of the world, he may find himself outstripped by the shrewd, sure-footed, less cultured and less finicky competitor. I admit dreaming of big things, but I also admit wearing overalls for nine years...