Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worried France helped Pilsudski, an expected Polish revolution did not come off, the Red generals blundered. Shrewd Pilsudski struck between the two Red armies, cut off Tukhachevsky, defeated Budenny, finally forced the weak Soviet Union to give up its provinces which were in dispute last week...
Canada had important business pending with her sister Dominion, the Union of South Africa. What the business was, the astute East Block (Canadian equivalent of the U.S. State Department) did not say. But to handle it the Dominion last week assigned one of her ablest constitutional lawyers. He is shrewd, friendly Charles J. Burchell, who left a rich practice in his native Nova Scotia to enter Canada's diplomatic service in 1939. Until last week he was High Commissioner in war-important Newfoundland; before that, the first High Commissioner to Australia...
Official Poland's principal spokesman, exiled Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, is an affable, diffident and calm man with a shrewd mind. Last week in London he stood on Poland's official demand for the complete restoration of its borders as they were before Germany and Russia divided the country in 1939. He and other government Poles still look to the U.S. and its people to support the Polish position, even hope for some official U.S. declaration in Poland's favor. Mikolajczyk and his fellow Poles realize that Britain puts a premium on collaboration with Russia at almost...
Much of Over Twenty-One is decidedly vin Gordonaire, but it is smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...
...silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings. For others there is a very shrewd little slapfooted dance performed by Cy Landry as an Indian...