Word: slyness
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From the pit the Philadelphia players gave the score all its eloquence. Conductor Fritz Reiner is a masterful Strauss conductor. His clean direct beat kept the framework exact but he brought out all Strauss's slyness, curved the melodies so that their beauty was bewitching. Said Critic Lawrence Oilman in the New York Herald Tribune: "There has not been heard in this country such an exfoliation of the beauty and the riant comedy of Strauss's irresistible score...
...story, "Be Mine Tonight" will be successful because of Magda Snyder's slyness; but as an operetta it will be a sure hit because of Jan Kiepura's tenor voice, which is heard often in the more familiar operas. His next picture "Blossom Time" soon to be released, ought to be worth seeing -- and hearing...
Typical, these Japanese comments were partly explained by the fact that Premier Ki Inukai was known as "the Old Fox, famed for slyness and trickery (TIME, Dec 21). Moreover the name of his Seiyukai Party has long been a Japanese byword for corruption. Last week prominent citizens of Tokyo, reluctant to comment on the killing of the Old Fox, spoke instead about Parliamentary Government, called it "alien," speculated upon the possible benefits of a return to Japanese Medievalism?as though that were possible...
...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...