Word: shrewd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dances at all functions-motormen's, modists', the Social Register's. His grandfather, the late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
Democratic though Manhattan usually is, the Phelps-Pratt contest was not wholly academic. The seat in Congress which each hoped to win is held at present by one William Cohen, shrewd Tammanyite, but formerly it belonged to Ogden Livingston Mills, now Under-Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Pratt vaunts no ambitions beyond representing the People in the Lower House-and living in official Washington. Mr. Phelps hopes, after serving in the House, to be Manhattan's, and perhaps New York State's, great and potent Republican Boss...
...again he urged a sea-level canal-alongside the present-Canal, one to cost a billion dollars (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The U. S. War Department has his recommendations on file. U. S. businessmen occasionally wondered if the old engineer was alive. He was, and at 69 still shrewd and witty...
...that the electorate has been agitated to a state of anticipation, if not of excitement, by the prospective election of the 31st President, how might shrewd crooks make gain without accepting direct graft...
...Shrewd...