Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disney's Folly. Wary Hollywood, which scoffed at sound ten years ago, scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty...
Hitting a New High (RKO Radio). One of the few opera stars who can wear a feather skirt to obvious advantage is diminutive, fluty Lily Pons. A shrewd producer like Jesse L. Lasky, having seen petite Miss Pons in the gold brassiere and flowered wrap-around skirt of Lakme, could see at a glance that there was more in Miss Pons than met the ear. When Suzette (Lily Pons), singing in Paris with a jazz band, declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade...
...tributes to old friends, quotations from pious writers, fragments from, old diaries. But to balance these they could get 1) a good account of how The Art of Thinking, rejected by Harper, Harcourt Brace, Macmillan, Scribner, became a best-seller (total sales: more than 400,000 copies); 2) some shrewd observations on U. S. women, embedded in praise too fulsome to be called flattery; 3) an account of a heroic career as a lecturer that once carried the abbe through 39 lectures in less than 80 days; 4) a general picture of a benign, well-wishing, patriotic character who knows...
...ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity of British life, he had a genuine ability to tell a story and to tell it with a sharp, shrewd bite...
...Country and My People Lin Yutang offered a shrewd and engaging interpretation of modern China which U. S. readers liked almost as well as chop suey. Passing suggestions in that book hinted that what the U. S. needs, in order to quiet its nerves, is a good shot of Chinese philosophy. In The Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many...