Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Davis Wilson did not rise from Republican Deputy Controller of Philadelphia to Democratic Controller to Republican Mayor to Democratic candidate for U. S. Senatorial nomination by wasting his vituperative talents on invulnerable opponents. To Philadelphians therefore it seemed perfectly natural that shrewd Mr. Wilson last week should choose for a target vulnerable Little Matt...
...once grew the Kid's famous Dutch-boy bob, had sued for an accounting of the great fortune he was sure he had amassed. From the San Fernando Valley mansion that Jackie's talents paid for, came the hurt and indignant cry of an outraged mother, the shrewd two-cents' worth of a storybook stepfather...
...London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked him if he had once been...
...literary edge and personality of an Edmund Wilson (TIME, March 21) but also without the slightest trace of malice or partisanship, Lewis Mumford has displayed a unique capacity for sensing and understanding the advanced thought, the advanced craftsmanship of his time, reconciling its contradictions in a persuasive synthesis. Shrewd observers ticket Mumford as the type of the New Liberal, find his typical antagonist in Old Liberal Walter Lippmann, who last autumn offered his version of The Good Society (TIME, Sept. 27). Old liberals and new liberals will differ as to which is the greater realist...
...Aldington Carrough is a famed country editor and Progressive. His closest friend is persuasive, charming Banker Isaac Norssex. Their sons share the family friendship. Lee Norssex goes into his father's bank. Junior Carrough, a Rhodes Scholar, goes to work on his father's newspaper, marries a shrewd New York newspaper woman, is elected to the State legislature. Occasionally he backs some bond legislation or kills a news story at Lee's suggestion...