Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shrewd, Harvard-accented Publisher Robert B. Choate, 48, had dreamed up a celebration that was as inexpensive as it was spectacular. To the Charles River Basin the Herald's advance ballyhoo brought a crowd optimistically estimated by the Herald to be 500,000 and by anybody's count, a lot of people. For five hours they lined both sides of the river, watched as the Army, Navy and Coast Guard put on a stunt series, heard the Port of Boston band (also working gratis) make music. The windup was a fireworks display, which the Herald bought at half...
...clifflike face and shrewd, appraising eyes in the portrait were bound to surprise those who remembered Gertrude Stein as the garrulous maiden aunt of modern letters. Picasso had gone all out to record physical solidity and force. Explained Stein in her book, Picasso, published in 1938: ". . . For him the reality of life is in the head, the face and the body, and this for him is so important, so persistent, so complete that it is not at all necessary to think of any other thing and the soul is another thing...
Cissie gave Bootsie a shrewd buildup, decorated the column each week with cuts of Bootsie in a different hat. As madly hatted as Hedda Hopper, Mrs. Cassini has a collection of 50, mostly John-Frederics jobs, sometimes makes her own from pieces of curtain or lace tablecloths...
...Even at Portugal's long past zenith, the Portuguese were ruled rather than governed-mostly by men less shrewd than Salazar (who exacted a pretty escudo for war aid to the Allies...
...Navy. He never went to sea, but he wound up two years later as naval aide to the President and a four-stripe captain, a feat which ordinarily takes Annapolis graduates around 20 years. Six weeks ago he became the President's special counsel, the job vacated by shrewd, veteran judge & lawyer Sam Rosenman. Everyone agrees that Clark Clifford, who is "perfectly devoted" to Harry Truman, has a way with Harry Truman as he has with juries...