Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrewd electioneering feat in Dublin...
...Vice President he was noteworthy for "keeping silent in 16 different languages." He has not the geniality of his predecessor, but those who know him say that there is more "steel" in his makeup. He is silent, shrewd, slow, firm...
...proof of the insidious power of these volumes Mr. Hirshfield quoted from Professor A. B. Hart's "School History of the United States" the statement that Samuel Adams "was a shrewd, hard-headed politician", and from Professor D. S. Muzzey's "An American History" the following passage: "A debatable question, namely, whether the abuses of the king's ministers justified armed resistance". Small wonder that Commissioner Hirshfield urged that these books be banned, for what school child reader of such partisan statements could ever resist the temptation to fly at once into the arms of the British Empire...
...Samuel Adams: "He was a shrewd, hard-headed politician...
...most able leaders that the labor movement has yet produced, shrewd, adroit, resourceful, a dangerous opponent either at the bargaining table or on the industrial field of battle...