Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film's producers were apparently aware that audiences are as sick of the tale of intrigue in a Balkan bungalow as they are of Jeannette McDonald. So they got smart and rigged up a whole new story. There was only one flaw in the plan: the new story was just as bad as the old one. They also thought they'd provide an antidote to the somewhat ghastly charms of Miss McDonald. So they raided--and that word is more descriptive than you think--the Metropolitan Opera and came up with Rise Stevens. This little scheme fell through...
...Philadelphia Opera lately made its first full-dress tour, to Boston. The Boston Herald gasped at how "Philadelphia (which we always understood was sounder to asleep collar on its this feet opera than company. Boston) ..." Next managed season, under management of smart Show man Sol Hurok, the Philadelphians will tour...
...funds. After the war, he foresees a major readjustment job for SEC, administering capital priorities in reverse. But the Commission's chief job, now and henceforward, is less exciting. Keeping the U.S. financial stables clean is no longer an Augean task. It requires, not a Hercules, but a smart and well-trained staff of janitors...
...Liebling is less interested than in the "Indians," the "heels" and the "tenants," who use it for their "promotions." To promote means to cheat anyone "of a dollar, or any fraction or multiple thereof." and the essence of praise in the Jollity Building is, "he has promoted some very smart people." Everyone there is busy promoting everyone else...
...picked up Union Electric in 1901 when it had 1,000 customers, about $6,000,000 assets. Now it has 365,000 customers, over $270,000,000 assets. It has also a smart balance between steam and hydro plants (66-34 ratio) and low rates. Deep in the defense program (serving airplane, TNT, cartridge and ordnance plants), Union spent $20,000,000 on expansion in 1941, will spend another $21,000,000 this year. It has never lost money, in 1937-41 averaged $7,000,000 profits annually. Only blotch on Union: two years ago it was caught buying politicians...