Word: shadier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buccaneers begins in Saratoga in the 1870s, where Mrs. St. George and her husband are watching over their two handsome daughters. Because Colonel St. George, a shady Wall Street speculator, needs the financial assistance of a still shadier Mr. Clossons, Mrs. St. George agrees to entertain Mrs. Clossons. This brings their girls into friendship with the Clossons' wild daughter, and gets ambitious Mrs. St. George in wrong with the Manhattan dowagers...
...familiarity with the U. S., his smart clothes, wrist watch, nervy wit. He was, said Hitler, half-facetiously refusing him permission to make soapbox speeches, ''too much of a swell.'' Later, when Nazi officials had limousines and champagne, the nickname still stuck-but with a shadier meaning, derived partly from Ludecke's too thoughtful awareness of U. S. anti-Nazi opinion. "A strange bird," Hitler now said, "a good head, but a dangerous brother...
...example of the first or literal type would be Mr. Lougee's sketch of an abstract conception of "Pillar of Society." Here, he shows a strong, distinguished, hardened face in the foreground, with other smaller and shadier faces behind. The flight of the author's imagination has showed a shady pen in the background, indicating that the "pillar" of respectability may have made his riches through smuggling rum. The whole piece gives the impression of a sinful past to the strong central figure...
Secretary Ickes has backed down to public indignation, and one of the shadier events connected with the present administration ends. Now that justice has triumphed, there is no need to stress the hypocrisy of the excuses. To argue that the law in the future would prevent the ugly hand of patronage and political maneuvering with federal funds by local officials, as Secretary Ickes does, is laughable with James A. Farley in the cabinet...