Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lightened by slap-stick, by shrewd characterizations in the vitriol of Sinclair Lewis, and by its background lampoon, "Over Twenty-One" is familiar war-time humor. It trips gaily and successfully along on the assumption that there's something to be laughed at anywhere, even--or especially--in a jumble of newspapers, Hollywood plays, Army manuals, bugle calls, and very confused people...
...small, shrewd Jimmy Byrnes, ex-Supreme Court Justice, ex-U.S. Senator, ex-Economic Stabilizer, it was the end of a tough, heart-breaking job. At 66, he had been at his desk seven days a week, had flown to Europe on a mission for Franklin Roosevelt last fall, had made another trip to the Yalta Conference. Now, with V-E day in sight, he felt his part of the job was done. He wanted a rest...
...over to step into Byrnes's shoes, and another tough assignment. But the 55-year-old former Kentucky Congressman was well equipped for the hot-corner spot. He had built a reputation as a skillful Government servant, able to resist pressures, capable of untangling economic snarls with the shrewd persistence of a veteran poker player...
...twelve-day round of caviar and vodka, of toasts and talks, came to an end. From Moscow shrewd little Dr. Eduard Benes rode a special Soviet train to his liberated homeland...
Married. Niles Trammell, 50, shrewd, soft-spoken president of the National Broadcasting Co.; and Cleo Allen Black, 41; both for the second time; in Queenstown, Md., one week after his Reno divorce from Elizabeth Ruth Huff Trammell, 42 (alimony: $1,000 a month...