Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential household also includes such diverse personalities as weather-beaten, 72-year-old Admiral Leahy, still technically the President's chief of staff, who gives Mr. Truman a daily 15-minute briefing on strategic problems; kindly, dignified William D. Hassett, a Roosevelt pensioner who handles general correspondence; and shrewd, soft-voiced David K. Niles, who advises on problems of minority groups, particularly Palestine...
...behind the winning coaches is shrewd, 49-year-old Fritz Crisler, who as Michigan's athletic director bosses all university sports, besides coaching football. He had already done his share for Michigan this season by turning out the nation's No. I football team...
...detail told a lot about Calvin Coolidge, the stock from which he sprang, and a lot about the U.S. and about a period which, even in 1933, was becoming dim. The "point" of the story was news because, although it may be hidden, the New England stamp, the shrewd, homely democracy of the little white towns, is impressed on the American character...
...good people are too simply good and guileless (in real life, the very poor are often very shrewd); the bad people are too simply bad. The camera work, highly accomplished of its romantic kind, drips with purple adjectives; it is profusely overappreciative of images that are beautiful enough to be merely looked at, without urging or comment...
Back in the days of "the Long Armistice," one of the favorite parlor tricks of the intelligentsia was debunking the unsullied stalwarts of the past. Abraham Lincoln became, in these circles, a shrewd country lawyer, Barbara Fritchie an irascible old fishwife, and it was discovered to the intense joy of the iconoclasts that George Washington not only told lies but had unmistakable earmarks of a stuffy, conservative militarist...