Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Coolidge. ". . . He is shrewd and calculating. You have only to look at his face to see that. It is a Yankee face. It just missed being a mean face, with its tight mouth and the over-sharp nose set at too pronounced an angle with the brow. The eyes are narrow and veiled, though they light up readily. The brightness of the eyes and the frequent smile save the face from repelling you. The smile is frugal...
POINCARÉ - Sisley Huddleston - Little Brown ($2.50). Called a biographical portrait, this book attempts to solve the enigma which the French call Poincaré. The author is not particularly successful. He hardly pierces the veil of the unknown that hangs around the ex-Premier, but he makes many shrewd comments and gives some first-hand impressions of the man who has "les poings, poings, poings . . . les poings carres...
...President Eliot's shrewd political eye shown him that Davis will win in November...
...Caddie Joseph Horgan, of the Westchester Biltmore Club, Rye, N. Y. Having caddied and coached the Champion to victory last Fall, Joe could not bear to miss her performance this year and had traveled to Providence "on his own" to be at her side. Well above the voting age, shrewd as any Irishman, Joe is a rare jewel among caddies...
...employed by Italy will rouse the American business men to new activity, you implicitly convey the idea of the far-reaching influence of the recent Italian rejuvenation. Who would have thought not long ago that the day was not far off when the Italian "black-shirts" would make shrewd American men of business fell somewhat uneasy as regards their foreign trade with certain nations...