Word: shrewdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...London's vital outpost, the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's, he prepared to send no blundering politico but one of the ablest career diplomats in the Foreign Service, shrewd, handsome Norman Armour, now Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Armour's record was a quick index to his ability: posts at Paris (twice). Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, Montevideo, Rome. Tokyo, Port-au-Prince, Ottawa, Santiago. Buenos Aires, Washington...
...shrewd conqueror will always enforce his exactions on the conquered only by stages. Then lie may expect that a people who have lost all strength of character will not find in any of these acts of oppression, if one be enforced apart from the other, sufficient grounds for taking up arms again."-Mein Kampf...
...Docile, Shrewd, Smart. Ten years in the U. S. have put Lily Pons and the English language on a footing of jovial acquaintance rather than intimacy. Her soprano chatter is the sort which newspaper interviewers, transcribing every zis and zat with loving care, particularly admire. Of England's late King George V she said: "Ze Keeng-he ees tres gentil-zo zhentle, zo keeng." Of a shoe which was too small for even her No. 2 foot: ;'Eet ees no. I cannot enter." Pert and naive-looking with her big brown eyes, her childish face framed...
...spectacular moneymaker was cigar-chewing Ernest Weir, whose modern mills put competition back into the steel business. In 1940 he yielded his news value to others. Mr. Weir is a salesman, and in 1940's market all the salesmen went fishing. It was a productionman's show. Shrewd Old Dealer Eugene Grace opened his mouth just wide enough to lap up the cream of the business. He also took the lead in cooperating with the New Deal's exhortations to expand: $100,000,000 worth, half of which was Government money. On the rest...
Washington was used to not noticing Christy Sullivan. In all his years in Congress, Christy had never made a speech. He attended few sessions, left the actual running of the Tammany bloc in Congress to shrewd, pugnacious Tom Cullen of Brooklyn. Ways & Means Committeemen, among whom hew:as third-ranking member, got used to seeing Christy lean over to Cullen, whisper: "Which way do I vote on this...