Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portrait of Humility. Unexpectedly, however, this shrewd and seasoned work is very nearly a first-rate novel. It becomes so, not by virtue of Maugham's mastery of form, great as it is, or his humor, of which too much has been made, nor his skepticism, which sometimes grows wearisome. It is distinguished for its portrait of Bishop Blasco de Valero. The devout prelate, self-sacrificing, presiding with terrible humility and conscientiousness over the trials of heretics, is a masterly portrait, equal to Maugham's best, and belonging well up in the gallery of modern fiction...
While the Massachusetts Democratic bosses were off watching ball-games this summer, a shrewd young Progressive named Walter O'Brien moved into the tenth Congressional district and snatched the nomination unopposed, thereby getting the nominal support of two parties and creating a hot battle for the Republican incumbent, Christian A. Herter...
South of General Chen, the Communist offensive was in the hands of shrewd, slippery General Liu Po-cheng, "the one-eyed dragon." Maneuvering down the rail line toward Hankow, Liu sent one column from his major force hell-for-leather down around Sinyang to feel out the railway defenses along the line south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow...
...smart man with a dollar, Casey is well-to-do, but after 38 years in organized baseball, he still likes the game and the company, and his reputation with the fans as a shrewd buffoon. Said he last week: "I've done everything now-played for McGraw, managed the Toledo Mudhens, been farmed out to Kankakee by the Kansas City Blues, played for the Brooklyn Bums. This completes the cycle...
...unhurried deliberate man of medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.), a little paunchy and careless of dress. With his pale face, grey-fringed, bumpy bald head, and shrewd appraising eyes, he looks like a country doctor. At the end of his 17-hour day his cheeks are sunken and he puffs a little as he climbs to the attic bedroom of his stately 22-room Georgian house in Richmond's swank Hampton Gardens. But Freeman has no intention of dropping any of his fulltime jobs. For 33 years he has been editor of the Richmond News Leader...