Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move placed Edgar in official control of the corporation at a time when a strong hand was needed to combat dropping sales and rising competition. A smart, hard-working man who spends twelve hours a day in the office, he was probably the only man in K-F who might be able to pull the company through its troubles...
...Smart Men Can Always...
...applicant is smart enough to make the Dean's List, he is almost always accepted, Bender said. Men with lower aptitude are judged on extra-curricular activities, character, alumni parentage, home state, and similar factors...
Lady Mendl, 91, tireless international smart-setter, tried her own therapy when her doctor ordered her to bed for ten days. In a pink satin bed jacket and diamonds, she presided over several little dinner parties in her candlelit Hollywood bedroom. To small tables, her guests (Hedda Hopper, Clifton Webb, Fanny Brice, et al.) brought picnic baskets. Blooming under the treatment, Lady Mendl was ready this week to hop a boat for Europe...
...doctor asked his patient a simple three-word question: "Are you happy?" The answer might give the clue to an unhappy home or job that led to the nervous breakdown. No out-&-out Freudian, Alvarez believes that a normal man can get a nervous breakdown from overwork. A smart general practitioner, he said, can often find out what's wrong in five minutes' talk with the patient's relatives or business associates...