Word: shrewd
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...fatal no. Kenya's Arab dhowmen are politically unimportant, and the Negroes, it was obvious, were only stalling in the hope of improving the bargain, which indeed was not much so far as the blacks were concerned. "I found Lyttelton very sympathetic," said shrewd Eliud Mathu, spokesman for the loyal Kikuyu. "The Negroes will not boycott the scheme. We will try to make it work...
...really remarkable thing about Night People is the skillful visual patter with which Johnson, working like a shrewd real-estate salesman, hurries the audience past the gaps and imperfections in his property and closes the sale before they quite know what they have bought. For no particular reason, doors open and shut in the moviegoer's face with bewildering frequency. Unnecessary characters rush in to firm up every soft spot with a bit of business...
...Dangerous Angel, Kelland's No. 39, the tamee is one Anneke Villard, a girl with a shrewd business sense who hits San Francisco in the closing years of the Gold Rush era, and swiftly parlays a $20,000 inheritance into something nearing a cool million. Unwittingly, she also falls in love with a handsome Telegraph Hill aristocrat named Juan Parnell, although she fights against it. They make up their lovers' quarrel just in time to outwit two murderous swindlers who have suckered San Francisco financial circles in a colossal confidence game...
Except for Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, he was long relegated to medium-size basso parts, found it difficult to compete with star foreigners for the leading roles. As a result, he does some shrewd horse-trading, e.g., he still sings the relatively minor parts of Brother Pimen (in Boris) and the Grand Inquisitor (in Don Carlo) in exchange for a share of the bigger parts...
...wander around and look to his heart's content. But after ten days of drilling, Shell suddenly changed its mind. It put up a sign warning away visitors and built a fence around the operation. But by the time the well was brought in, at 6,433 ft, shrewd Nevadans were already trickling into Reno's land office, snapping up oil-and-gas leases on the federal land around the well at 50? an acre...