Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country needs a man who is industrially clever, a man who has a keen business mind, who can handle problems of the financial world with facility. Herbert Hoover has definitely planned the expenditure of the national income so that it will be of the greatest use to the greatest number of people. He has fought for a balanced budget in order to stabilize the financial standard of the nation. He is the man who has started the nation on the road to economic recovery. Let him finish...
Princeton and Columbia played their first football game in 27 years. Observers thought it was also the first real football- with hard tackling, clever passing and even a 25-yd. penalty for unnecessary roughness-that Princeton had played since 1929. The penalty accounted for Columbia's first touchdown: Cliff Montgomery's slippery slants off tackle or end and a smart overhead game accounted for two more. Columbia 20, Princeton...
Connie Chatterley, married to young, handsome Lord Clifford, thought that she was happy until the War crippled her husband. Even then she managed to get along. Clifford was clever, advanced, liberal in his ways. Connie began to have affairs with men. Then she met her husband's gamekeeper, Mellors. and for the first time in her life fell really in love. When she knew she was going to have a baby she left Clifford, who would not really mind, as he was beginning to have an infantile passion for his middle-aged nurse. The story ends with Connie making plans...
Noah Haynes Swayne, 60, resigned as president of Burns Bros., largest coal distributor in the U.S. ("Burns Coal Burns'"). An oldtime anthracite man, Mr. Swayne has held high positions in many coal trade associations and clubs, is known as a clever postprandial speaker. He has delivered several sermons in Philadelphia churches. He possesses an excellent bass-baritone, has gone on tours singing Negro songs, lecturing. His father was General Wager Swayne, Military Governor of Alabama after the Civil War and founder of Swayne Hall at Talladega, Ala., first Negro college in Alabama. His brother is Alfred Harris Swayne, vice president...
...betray him, kills her on the spot. This incident gives him a dislike for women; his other wives are taken merely as good investments. As Wang the Tiger's star rises, the fortunes of Merchant and Landlord Wang, who supply him with cash, rise too. Like a clever serializer, Authoress Buck draws her curtain before the inevitable...