Word: slyness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author has written her tale in a manner that seems oldfashioned, courtly, Victorian when compared with contemporary styles. At times reminiscent of her friend, David Garnett, she has none of Garnett's slyness; her implications are altogether moral. Member of an old Huguenot family that has lived in England for generations, daughter of a Victorian clergyman, Edith Olivier lives in Wilton, on the edge of Salisbury Plain, in a house that was once the dairy on the Earl of Pembroke's estate. Near neighbor is Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?TIME, Sept. 29). Authoress Olivier rarely goes...
...Indian Service of Empress Victoria from Private to Sergeant Major, returned to help his father with house agenting, but drifted into Law. Thus when Frederick Edwin Smith was born at Birkenhead, on July 12, 1872, he inherited by right a wildcat's pugnacity and brawn, an old campaigner's slyness, a lawyer's bent...
Advertising men last week viewed two big new campaigns, chuckled over the superb slyness of one, pondered the astuteness of the other. Both were variants of testimonial advertising, but if the two should be judged for originality, the prize would go to Ex-Lax Manufacturing Co., not American Tobacco...