Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cover-to-cover reader. Therefore, I rise to hail as "able" and soon to become "famed" The Voter's Dream cartoon in this week's TIME. Verily Cartoonist Barbour has drawn the "tycoon" of cartoons! To him "all praise," and to rival cartoonists a "thoroughgoing rebuke." My "shrewd" purpose in writing this letter is to offer you $100 for the original of The Voter's Dream. I "view with alarm" the possibility that some other subscriber may offer you more. But if my bid is successful, I promise to hang the original over my mantel and ever...
...shrewd gasoline-pump man on Highway 65 put signs on two pumps?Hoover Gas and Smith Gas? same price, same grade. He then kept tab on the gallons bought at each pump. Customers bought heavily to boost their candidate. Smith...
...pompous, correct, and usually frock-coated; but by no means heedless of the ballot pulling power of pigs. Mr. Churchill's piggery is at Westerham; and Sir William's nestles on his Sussex estate, Newick Park. Both are scorned as mere "gentlemen's pig pens" by shrewd, onetime (1916-22) Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who owns a large, commercial pig ranch and tells his former constituents that "you and I keep pigs for profit, not prizes...
Shocked London bobbies halted repeatedly, last fortnight, a hard-faced, middle-aged woman who sped up and down Piccadilly in a tiny, three-wheeled automobile. Why had it no license? Why had she no license? Shrewd, the woman spoke her alibi: "It hasn't any license, and I haven't any license, because my car hasn't any engine!" While astonished motorcycle bobbies paced her, the hard-faced middle-aged woman peddled potently on a bicycle mechanism and speeded her tiny car up to 25 miles per hour. An official of the firm now marketing "The Taxlessmobile...
Despite this shrewd secrecy, on the part of General McCoy, a story spread like wildfire among ignorant Nicaraguan natives that those who do not vote for the Conservative candidate (supposed to be favored by President Coolidge) will find themselves poisoned by the stain...