Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aging Ed Kelly still clung to Chicago's top political spot. The deal left him the city patronage. But shrewd, suave Jake Arvey will run everything else. A new era had quietly begun in Chicago's tough, corrupt politics. Not necessarily a better...
People & Money. A.R.I.'s top-drawer clients include such shrewd and seasoned manufacturers as Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney, MGM, David 0. Selznick, Hal Wallis, J. Arthur Rank, RKO. After ten years of cautious experimenting and testing, A.R.I, is equipped with everything from Gallup interviewers to electrical gadgets that measure audience boredom. Its trade lingo glitters with professionalisms: A.P. (Audience Penetration), Want-to-See, Don't-Want-to-See, Word-of-Mouth...
...with himself, ending abruptly with a nod of decision and a hurried resumption of his path toward Lehman Hall. The early morning boulevardier is Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University and his invisible colleague might well be the spiritual embodiment of the Harvard Corporation, which has saddled this shrewd Yankee with a thankless job that has often caused him agitation of the soul...
...precious meat for the dining halls, hot water for the Houses, the fire in Thayer, the repair to Memorial Hall, and the installing of sanitary facilities for the veterans' housing units-all fall within the daily scope of his activities. In all of these Durant is the perfect Yankee, shrewd and tight-lipped, but eminently fair. From his office in Lehman Hall the building and maintenance services that employ 1500 men and women are controlled with a canny eye towards thrift and an instinctive conservatism that marks an administrative officer of Harvard University...
...medical student. (Henreid's blatantly un-British enunciation is lightly dismissed by a reference in the script to his "Viennese mother.") Eleanor Parker, a pretty, plumpish, 24-year-old ingenue, is physically miscast as the scrawny little slut of a waitress. But under Director Edmund Goulding's shrewd guidance, she does a fine, shoulder-wriggling job in the repellent role that gave Bette Davis a start as the screen's No. 1 hussy...