Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Kuno von Westarp is certainly too shrewd to imagine that the 20,000,000 votes will ever be polled; but he needs an issue around which to rally supporters to his Party, and apparently he has decided that by backing the "Kaiser Referendum" he can win the support of the few thousand super-Monarchist revolutionaries who have heretofore kept up their own party organizations...
Shoe Tycoon Bat'a's next two moves were characteristic, shrewd. He offered charitable relief to out-of-work hand shoemakers, on certain conditions; and the offer was indignantly refused. Then, with his fighting decks cleared, Thomas Bat'a forced an investigation of his shoes by a Committee of the out-of-works, forced them to admit and sign a statement that his shoes were leather, not paper, and finally placarded all Czechoslovakia with enlarged photostat copies of the statement...
...Swedish, English, French, German. He has more than a smattering of Russian and Finnish. But he would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly for the sale of foreign matches...
...assistants come, go, confer. One is named Hainer Hinshaw. The office believes he is a distant relative of the Nominee. . . . One of the department heads is Col. Hanford MacNider. who resigned last winter as Assistant Secretary of War and in June got mentioned for the Vice Presidency. Another (Oh. shrewd Mr. Good) is Farmer Lowden's good friend, James G. Oglesby...
...place for the man who loves home and normalcy, Hollywood is grist to the mill of the farceur. Van Vechten takes a spineless playwright, lover of normalcy, and pitches the unwilling wretch into a kaleidoscope of temperamental screen-stars, their mamas (chaperones?) and parasitic Spanish nobles, of shrewd Jewish producers and bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self...