Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Story which Professor Lake will interpret this morning at 12 in the Fogg Large Room has to do with Solomon, the wise king of Israel, and his clever alliances with Hiram, king of Tyre, one "filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning to work...in brass...
...technique of counter-espionage at Intelligence Service headquarters in Washington during the War. Though the intrigue is sometimes unintelligibly involved, the story is swiftly paced, manages by a parade of ingenious tricks to provide sustained entertainment. It also arouses wonder that, with German spies as thick as fleas and clever as foxes, the War Department managed to keep any secrets whatever...
...They have had a guiding hand in the drafting of nearly all legialation expert the NRA, he days. To them the constitution is just a foil for clever fencing- an antediluvian joke to be respected in public like a Sacred Cow and regarded in private somewhat as Gertrude Stein probably regards the poet Tennyson, or any other Victorian...
...musing Vagabond; the name India, even as a richly-patterned flying carpet of an Oriental story, carries him away from this screechy, glary world of steam shovels and oath bills to a land whose proverbial wealth and mosques and snake charmers and fire walkers and clever elephants is exceeded in interest and enchantment only perhaps by the richness and beauty of its philosophy and literature. On a carpet woven of these finest thoughts and sentiments of India the Vagabond is thus flying today. It is the "Rig Veda." To those who would be led by this sacred book they will...
...honking, the henchmen cheering, and the political boss who organizes the loudest noise brigade wins the election. For America loves a big noise, and the bigger and noisier, the better they love it. The political boss must be colorful, for America loves a showman. The political boss must be clever, for America loves a juggler. Dazzle the common man, for Honest John Public loves to be dazzled, either with gilded promises or gilded coins, and the brightest dazzler wins...