Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year Pensioner Gasque began to outpropose Pensioner Rankin. While Mr. Rankin languished with laryngitis, shrewd Mr. Gasque assaulted the Treasury with no less than nine new bills. But last week found Mr. Gasque bedded in Walter Reed Hospital with a reported heart attack and Mr. Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders...
...lawful enterprise prepared to pay Lloyd's of London the right price can insure itself against almost any emergency. But lately Lloyd's rate on libel insurance has jumped prohibitively skyhigh. For shrewd, dumpy Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, has applied England's oppressive libel laws so sternly that rare has been the libel which could be successfully defended...
Manhattan's dapper little Karl William Zoeller is an advertiser with shrewd understanding of the heartier elements in human nature. Last week, as director of the Institute of American Sporting Art, Inc., he staged a big show of sporting art in Chicago for just those elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them...
...said I was competent and now in my sixties they say I am superficial." Last week, in The Summing Up, Author Maugham gave readers passing reasons for agreeing with the critics of each decade. But he also gave them a candid appraisal of his own temperament and accomplishments, some shrewd reflections on writing, some common-sense aphorisms, about as few revelations of his personal life as it would be possible for an autobiographer to give...
...produced spectacular feats of economic practice. But it has not, except for the Single Tax ideas of Henry George, produced any original economic theory. The Promises Men Live By, a 492-page volume addressed to laymen, is offered as "a new approach." Its author, shrewd, 51-year-old Harry Scherman, is president and owner of the Book-of-the-Month Club, onetime successful adman and originator of the Little Leather Library, which in two years (1923-25) sold 40,000,000 copies through such outlets as Woolworth's and the Whitman Candy...