Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best Tradition. Smart and helpful, the Reserves are also self-sufficient. The New River maintenance crew, for instance, is allowed to handle up to 220-voltage electricity and performs the plumbing and carpentry chores in the women's area. Corporal Billie Holcomb, who has a Marine staff sergeant father and an Army sergeant husband in the Aleutians, is boss...
Hogan's carefully nursed baby in the broadcasting field has been WQXR, and he remained its president when the Times completed negotiations last week (pending FCC approval). Present station policies will be maintained, but in smart, inventive President Hogan and WQXR, the Times got a handy hedge against the postwar day when its famed slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" might have to be augmented by "All the News That's Fit to Facsimilize...
...either us or Satan. . . .") or a similar melody by the 26-inmate glee club. There are selections by a 22-piece orchestra, which sometimes tackles a Rachmaninoff prelude "in the style of the San Quentin Orchestra." There are vocals by prison songbirds; a short speech by smart, humane Warden Clinton Duffy; a few words, for instance, from the inmate who has donated the most blood to the San Quentin blood bank...
Jackpot (book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon & Ben Roberts; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & Howard Dietz; produced by Vinton Freedley) is a large-scale musical that ran to telephone figures and adds up to zero. Considering how many smart people are involved in it, Jackpot seems almost like a conspiracy of dullness...
...plea is ... for fair play in our convention. ... If Willkie becomes the victim of smart political manipulation, with a handful of bosses dominating the Republican convention ... I fear for our survival. Such a course means suicide for the Republican Party...