AFTER the shrewd and wary real estate blogger known as Grim (real name: James A. Bednar of njrereport.com) bought his first house in Wayne last spring, he quickly announced where he would start with renovations: the damp basement.
After some shrewd bargaining on both sides, Hearst obtained her services for his New York American in 1922.
The Lomma brothers opened their first miniature golf course after taking shrewd note of the fixed quality of existing courses.
When Zsa Zsa Gabor wanted a new paint job on her Rolls-Royce Corniche, she got it for nothing (after some shrewd angling on her part).
After that shrewd observation he launched into a tirade about the significance of the Rh-negative blood type to aliens, the childishness of the Big Bang Theory, and something about the Swiss being a highly trained secret army.
The Mets scored three runs after Alomar's shrewd decision, the kind of subtle play that usually defines him.
After the war, shrewd airmail bureaucrats obtained larger American-built De Havilland DH-4 biplanes with liquid-cooled Liberty engines from surplus military stocks.
In article after article, Mr. Dunne mixes shrewd insight into the legal process with dishy use of his considerable social skills.
Ed Balls knows all that, and made a shrewd intervention after the latest GDP figures, reminding the Tories that with more tax rises coming, small business lending down and the eurozone still in crisis, David Cameron would be unwise to be complacent.
New York does not have the vineyards, but it sure has the wine stores, dozens upon dozens of them, and shrewd customers, after making a few phone calls and drawing up a little list, can map out a personal wine trail, as I did on a recent Saturday afternoon.
