It happened because many shrewd ladies of fashion brought back bottles of the perfume from Europe, took them to the stores, said they were gifts and asked to exchange them for other things.
It is also effective enough to fool everyone at the hotel, a humming establishment run by Mrs. Baker, a shrewd and pretentious lady played with cooing, squawking relish by Pauline Collins.
She earned part of her audience through YouTube, with a shrewd batch of cover tunes (Lady Gaga, Metallica, etc).
Although many Americans assume she is too polarizing a figure to ever get elected, the former first lady has been shrewd and pragmatic in how she has handled herself in the Senate.
Not to puncture anyone's fantasy, but a lady is a shrewd young person with no interest in sex at all, who sells his body for pin money to low bidders while appraising the season's ambient johns for an ideally deluded, rich tourist.
Fans call this Dutch lady both independent and politically shrewd.
Like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, Mr. Timberlake has consistently shown himself a shrewd manipulator of image, Mr. Zee said, conjuring a new persona to telegraph each new shift in career trajectory.
In it, Fallon says of Ramsden: 'He is a shrewd, organised man who rarely gets it wrong.' Riches await Brighton ladies It seems the days of competing for honour alone are over.
The only woman producer operating in this competitive environment, Sonia Pottinger, not only survived but thrived through a combination of business practices as shrewd as the men's, and old-fashioned charm that earned her the nickname "the first lady of reggae".
Ms Lee's shrewd examination makes this a riveting biography, and gloriously illuminates the separate talents of two distinguished ladies of letters.
