Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marguerite Tarrant) and the house mother, Miss Havisham (Helen Bee) who gives the girls the benefit of the knowledge gained from her old house in Atlantic City. The rest of the plot comes with the romance of bashful bohemian Fred (John Baker) and his less-shaggy but more-shrewd soul force Priscilla (Sallie Wolfe). Baker's voice is shaky, but he was a solidly insecure bohemian. Miss Wolfe's singing voice is pleasant, but her acting was wooden. As Fred's intellectual playmate, Alice Oberg's red hair and fluid hips more than excused her voice as she sang...
...ready-made and the copyist, private luxuries are now public domain. Because of the curious liaison Dior has wrought between the shrewd operators of Seventh Avenue and the damask-hung salons off the Champs Elyseées, U.S. women may deplore or applaud the plump little man from Normandy, but they cannot ignore him. The woman has not yet been born who, shopping for a new dress, asks for "something just like what I have on"-and men would not like it if she did. Few women have the social assurance to trust their own taste completely. Dior...
...rise to premiership would be no surprise. Second-runner by only seven votes to Ishibashi when he became Premier, 60-year-old Foreign Minister Nobusuke Kishi has had the official title Acting Temporary Prime Minister throughout Ishibashi's illness. A business tycoon (steel, chemicals), he has been a shrewd backstage manipulator in Japanese politics since long before Pearl Harbor. In the early days of Japan's burgeoning Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, he was one of occupied Manchuria's top economic czars. As former Minister of Commerce and Industry in militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime...
Cause & Effect. A Negro who has won four national awards for stories that have taken him from the Deep South to the Far East, Carl Rowan, reporter and author (South of Freedom), brought to his 15-part Tribune series a mixture of shrewd news sense and a personal kinship with the Indian-the other "American who is not quite an American." In six months on the story, he traveled thousands of miles through reservations in Minnesota and North and South Dakota, talked to hundreds of Indians and white officials. His published series is not only a hard-hitting indictment...
...novel. This is what happens in The Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first book about itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love...