Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homespun and plain as an old shoe; his shrewd and educated political sense guards him against assuming any more sophisticated manner. On his campaign train he joined newsmen at poker almost every night, dressed in pajamas and an old flowered dressing gown, the kind that can be bought on any Main Street. When the waiter brought in a deep-dish pie. Harry Truman exclaimed: "My, the crust is as good as Mummy used to make." He drinks his bourbon with ginger...
...have just read ... of Wendell Willkie's death, and I feel a deep sorrow because a great hope has died with him. You have a Roosevelt and a Dewey and will have one of them as your next President. Both are politicians; both are shrewd. But we, the men of all nations, had a Willkie and we have lost him. He was not shrewd, but he was sincere. Perhaps he was a poor politician . . . but he was something very much more than that...
...President always heeds the campaign advice of New York's shrewd little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Last week "The Hat," as he is known in New York, was a White House luncheon guest. A few hours later, in Manhattan, bumbling Bob Hannegan, Democratic national chairman, announced that the President would tour New York City. Said Hannegan: "After the people have seen him, they can make up their own minds about his vigor and health...
...dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie discovered that one of them had resorted to suicide, she not only determined to halt her husband's vengeful program but succeeded, thanks to some pretty shrewd manipulation of the stockmarket...
Meanwhile, with the exception of the Daily Herald, the Daily Mirror and the Yorkshire Post, Britain's newspapers had to rely on news-agency coverage or ignore the convention altogether. But T.U.C. held firm. Said its shrewd general secretary, Sir Walter Citrine: "It is quite clear that an attempted boycott is in operation. . . . Freedom of the press is interpreted by those newspapers as Freedom to Suppress...