Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discounting this excessive hands-across-the-sea mateyness, audiences will find that Yank makes its point, gives an amusing, revealing, often shrewd account of American soldiers in Britain, and of British forbearance during the only successful invasion of the island since...
Editor White, a shrewd and earthy observer of men, did not follow Theodore Roosevelt blindly. But he followed him devotedly, in the Republican Party and out of it into the Progressive Party, and when that somewhat anomalous crusade turned into a group of generals without an army, White followed Roosevelt into enforced retirement. Editor White did not understand exactly what historical forces were moving him and thousands of others in the muckraking, reforming, progressive surge that washed the U.S. into the 20th Century. But he felt vaguely, as he rigged political conventions, ran errands between politicians, and fought...
...first things he would learn would be the shrewd formula by which promotion-wise Larry Spivak has lifted the Mercury to 95,000 circulation, from the 33,000 to which it had sunk when Editor H. L. Mencken wearily stepped out in 1933. It had long since lost all the sudsy sarcasm it had under Mencken, was now an excitable cross between Reader's Digest and an exposé sheet. The Spivak formula: find a man with a promising cause, and exploit them both. Sample "discoveries...
Elizabeth Arden Graham (they call her "Miss Mudpack" around the stables) needed Knockdown's win. Her prize trainer, shrewd old Silent Tom Smith, was suspended for a year for giving a horse ephedrine (TIME, Nov. 19), and three of her best horses have broken down since son Jim Smith took over. Last week, when Miss Mudpack's horses finished first and second at Santa Anita, old Tom was not there. He could not come near the track, but there was no law against a father talking...
...shrewd deal. Before she had even received her A.B., 25-year-old Student Blanding was made Kentucky's acting Dean of Women. She reasoned that "a dean of women has to have the respect of her faculty," so after a year she took a leave of absence to pick up an M.A. at Columbia...