Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shrewd, even charming and a consummate, instinctive master of humans, the Dictator this week was getting everything set to score a greater triumph at the polls on December 12 than has ever been scored by Hitler or Mussolini-scores of millions more yes-ballots. Trouble was at latest reports that nominating bodies throughout the Soviet Union were all trying to nominate Stalin as their candidate. Some 1,143 new elective offices have been created and means will have to be found to keep the Dictator from being elected to each. Last week "Most Popular Soviet Novelist" Peter Pavlenko sloganed...
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...Baltimore, shrewd Eugene B. Smith was sentenced to a year in jail because he: 1) told two undertakers and a minister that his grandmother was dead, made funeral arrangements, borrowed money- to be paid back from the insurance; 2) told Mrs. Emma Appleby that his grandmother and niece were dead on Maryland's Eastern Shore, asked her to pack up and go with him to take charge of double funeral arrangements, swiped her baggage...
...Bees, who had decisively beaten both the Giants and the Cubs the past month and were still knocking at the door of the first division last week, despite the team's dependence on material recruited from the minor leagues. For their showing Boston credited Manager McKechnie's shrewd choice of two "old rookies," Pitchers Jim Turner and Lou Fette, who proceeded to win 18 and 17 games respectively this season, simply providing a fresh demonstration of the axiom that 30 is the best age for a pitcher. Competing with Charley Dressen's Reds for the tail...
...best trained, best equipped troops in Asia, and with them two of China's ablest generals: bushy-browed Chu Teh and bob-haired Mao Tse-tung. The two of them have had a longtime partnership, General Chu being the military expert, General Mao the shrewd politician...