Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, they rarely spoke off the air except through intermediaries. In December Dody was cut down from five to three performances a week. Her shrewd manager renegotiated her five-year NBC contract, guaranteeing her $26,000 for the next 26 weeks, whether she appears with Paar or not, and freeing her for other work. In the deal the Jack Paar Show gladly arranged to drop her as a "regular" last week...
...Paar erupted before one show. "Does one say 'Your fly's open' on the air? Or do you take out a falsy before the camera? No other person has ever confronted me with such embarrassment or provocation. Oh she's terribly bright-very shrewd, calculating. You notice how she fiddles at her skirt scratches, waves to the audience. That's her method of competing. I tell her not to and she says I'm jealous of her. I even have trouble keeping her mouth shut when...
Lamphere signed an authorization for a request to a San Francisco hospital for data on his treatment there. He must have made a shrewd guess, for the answer did not arrive in time to help the harassed Iowa City doctors. Suspicious of his continual coughing or spitting of blood, the physicians tried every stratagem they could think of to catch him in deliberate self-injury. They never could. Four times Lamphere angrily signed himself out of the hospital, complaining of inadequate care, stormed to the main door-and there was persuaded to return because he was again spitting blood...
...rich, not from his plays and histories but because he was a shrewd investor who "would rise from a sick-bed and travel across France, if he saw a good profit to be made." Château Cirey in Champagne was tumbledown; to restore it, Voltaire put his credit at the disposal of Emilie's husband-who, in turn, put his wife and Château at the disposal of Voltaire. History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle...
...with the help of a shrewd Allied agent, The Cat jumped again. Still Bleicher's mistress by night, she became a British agent by day. She managed to get to London, taking with her "a complete German radio code," and the British set to work sending false information back to Bleicher. But she hated London. "I don't feel that I am really liked or trusted," she complained. She was dead right. When her usefulness was ended, the British clapped her into jail, and at war's end handed her back to the French police in return...