Word: shrewdness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular...
Last week the man was found, engaged, announced. New president will be Lionel J. Noah, the conservative, shrewd Yankee who is now executive vice president of Gimbel Brothers, Philadelphia. More surprising and newsworthy was the simultaneous announcement that chairman of the executive committee will be William Bishop Warner, president of McCall Corp., publishers of McCall's Magazine (circulation 2,500,000); McCall Quarterly; McCall Needlework and Decorative Arts; McCall Style News; Red Book Magazine. McCall Corp. also publishes and distributes fashion patterns. Chairman Warner knows the retail field, knows much about distribution, and his press can do much...
...dead. At the tenth jump Red Gold fell on his head and hurt himself fatally. Eric Atterbury, codesigner of the course, was thrown from Kilbairn and had concussion of the brain. They were more than half way round before Alligator, who had been running ninth, began to move ahead. Shrewd Charles Plumb Jr., a goodlooking young Long Island horse dealer, was up on Alligator for Mrs. Stevenson. He had been letting his rivals eliminate and trample each other. Alligator, slow but steady, surefooted, was second coming into the last turn. Wav.erly Star was two lengths in front. Waverly Star rose...
...decades the McLean interests operated both papers, strategically covering the adherents of both major parties. Also there was another, probably stronger motive for keeping the Commercial Tribune alive: its presence served to protect the thriving Enquirer against invasion of the morning field by outside competition- possibly Hearst. Year ago shrewd General Manager William F. Wiley contracted for United Press and Universal Service to augment the Enquirer's Associated Press franchise. Then, according to report, Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, son of the founder (and publisher also of the Washington Post), won an agreement from Hearst to stay...
...slid simply down the ways, struggled unostentatiously against the flood, then sank apparently without a trace. But ten months later it emerged again as a bestseller, led all non-fiction books for eleven months.* So famed grew The Story of San Michele and its author, Dr. Axel Munthe, that shrewd Publisher Dutton wanted to launch another Munthe book. Not having a new one handy he raised from the bottom, where it had been reposing out of print since 1898, Memories and Vagaries...