Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sinister characters ever to wear a U.S. uniform. In one scene, MacDermott is seen sitting in a booty-bulging castle, listening to stock exchange quotations, while his wife has her portrait painted. Upon hearing that timber prices are rising in England, the alert army wife gives the general a shrewd tip: "Have the Germans chop down their forests around the city and ship the wood to be sold in England. What have you been appointed a general for if you can't make...
...Dodero properties were worth much more than the government paid for them and the fact that Don Alberto would sell at such a bargain price left Argentines breathless. Whatever the government pressure, the public could only conclude that Dodero knew when to get out. Apparently shrewd Don Alberto foresaw no future for free enterprisers like himself in Perón's Argentina...
Aunt Anita, a sweet and shrewd old lady who wears fussy, turn-of-the-century clothes, has given away something like $10 million in her time. She put $2,000,000 into Chicago's progressive Frances W. Parker School, sent $100 to the family of each of the in victims of the 1947 Centralia mine disaster, tossed some $50,000 into Wallace's campaign collection plates last fall, and donated a round $1,000,000 to endow the new, leftist Foundation for World Government...
...Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...
Next day the producer's wife, a shrewd judge of publicity and an amateur spiritualist, packed Erica and the jacket off to a professional medium. Big, bosomy Medium Jane Harley quivered when she touched the possessed garment. Such a treasure was almost too good to be true. She dragged it over her plump arms and promptly went into hysterics. Then the stage manageress, an old trouper herself, had a go at it, and tore the garment off. "I'm choking!" she screamed, and a very convincing scream...