Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close-to-the-vest fight for control of New England's biggest railroad, Boston's shrewd, old (82) Frederic C. Dumaine held an impressive hand. Dumaine interests had claimed that they had picked up enough New York, New Haven & Hartford stock to elect eleven of the 16 directors (TIME, May 17). Last week, with a stockholders' showdown meeting still a month off, the opposition folded up. Howard S. Palmer, who, Boston charged, was too close to New York interests, resigned after 14 years as New Haven's president. To make New England's victory over...
...Girl All the Time." But Carole Landis was still Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, a lovely torso, not an actress-generous, shrewd, unstable. Walter Winchell described her in the adolescent and gritty language of Broadway: "She was ... All Girl all the time...
...University of Washington's Huskies seemed to belie their nickname. They were the tallest and skinniest of eleven crews that lined up at Poughkeepsie last week for the big race. Said shrewd Coach Al Ulbrickson: "As long as my crew averages 6 ft. 3, I never worry about weight." He found plenty of other things to worry about...
Cattlemen kept hammering the government to restore their "natural market" (TIME, Jan. 12, 26). Last month, Agriculture Minister James Gardiner boldly announced that the embargo was coming off "soon." It looked like a shrewd move to win friends in the west and help Gardiner capture the Liberal Party leadership in August. But the mere promise of action sent cattle and beef prices up. That made consumers sore. And when Gardiner's great day seemed too long a-coming, cattlemen growled their disappointment...
...Some are debatable, but the principle is sound. It is equally sound, of course, to cut the text. There are purists who will yell bloody murder at the very idea that Shakespeare can possibly be "improved" on in any way at all. Nonetheless, Olivier has treated him to some shrewd editing...