Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political and civil dynamite represented by the bootleggers and the citizenry whose prosperity rests on their outlaw profits. At his side last week stumped the "King of the Bootleggers," 33-year-old Earl Humphrey, who claims 15.000 'leggers in his Independent Miners & Truckers Association. A slim, shrewd, explosive Welshman who lost a leg in a mine accident, 'Legger Humphrey cried: "We will welcome any impartial investigation by the State Legislature. But any effort by the big coal operators or the State to stamp us out by force will lead inevitably to bloodshed...
...Shrewd New Orleans cotton men guessed that Messrs. Tullis & Craig had cleaned up nearer $200,000 than the $2,000,000 which was reported. Brisk, fortyish Partner Tullis is Commodore of the Southern Yacht Club, second in age in the U. S. only to the New York Yacht Club. Starting as an office boy, Mississippi-born Garner Tullis became a cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig...
...result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship, democratic rights, while England itself remained in the grip of repression for another quarter-century. Pious Rhode Islanders believed it divine mercy resulting from their steadfast adherence to God's laws. But shrewd Professor Andrews thinks that Englishmen were already secretly opposed to religious repression, willing to experiment abroad in granting rights they would not concede at home...
Elated but urbane, the Guild's shrewd Chairman Maurice Rentner purred: "Surely the stores in question should be convinced by this time that our plan contains many beneficial things. . . . [It] would be most regrettable if these court proceedings were to be regarded as containing an element of defeat for anyone...
Since then he has run Argentina's foreign affairs without brooking any interference from General Justo. Shrewd as well as pompous, he frequently works 20 hours, smokes 100 cigarets a day-often any brand he can borrow from his aides...