Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mark Sullivan, like all other men, is not infallible. But Mark Sullivan is notably dispassionate, notably shrewd; moreover, notably conservative in his judgments. Last week, when he pre-computed the electoral votes of states, many persons accepted his mathematical approximation rather as logical conclusion than as prophecy or even prediction...
...competent supporting cast, the saturnine Edna May Oliver squeezes the maximum of merriment out of a shrewd supply of neatly satiric lines...
...Chicago Inter-Ocean, Times-Herald, Record-Herald, Evening Post. His services to the Republican cause brought him into contact with many a famed man, made it possible for him-for he never accepted an office-to become great by refusing greatness, notorious while shunning noitoriety. A genial, meagre, shrewd little man, he had a talent for friendship and an ability to stick to his principles, no matter how little they profited him. He told about his political adventures in a book of memoirs, From McKinley to Harding. One of his greatest coups was his success in having the word "gold...
...overfed Capital -hangs, not on his words, but on the power of his convictions. In the Senate, Borah weighs, not because he is the leader of an insurgent group lake LaFollette, not because he is part of a powerful machine, not because he is witty, not because he is shrewd, but because he is Borah. He has neither followers nor leaders and he needs none...
Such statements he salted with catchy quips, shrewd witticisms. It is believed by some that great numbers of people owe their fortunes to having heard this lecture...