Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also ready for a publisher (Alfred A. Knopf) was thrice-married Cinemactress Joan Bennett's manuscript, How To Be Attractive. She summed it up: "An attractive woman is one who grows smart instead...
...Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...
...issued a chorus call; he kept a "Book of Girls" and out of it came the most delectable, and probably the most wined-&-dined, chorines in the history of show business. A vast number married millionaires; asked, once, just how many, onetime Follies man Georgie White replied: "All the smart ones...
...citizens paid little attention to the whole affair. There were good reasons: 1) no big-time officials were involved; the highest ranking wrongdoer found was a plant metallurgist; 2) U.S. Steel's president, smart, suave Benjamin F. Fairless, made no attempt to defend his company, readily admitted "very, very poor management," promised that all involved "will have to walk the plank...
...chorus and the showgirls are, nearly every one the biggest assets in the show. Such famed beauties as Kay Aldridge and Mildred Law will not go unrecognized by frequenters of the Shubert and dippers into Vogue. The veteran cast includes, beside Digges and Cossart. Cora Witherspoon, Mary Wickes, Jack Smart, and Eddie Green of "Duffy's Tavern." All are capable comedians without suitable material, but, all join in the chorus, "By the time it reaches New York...