Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cynical, smart Mr. Lewis had won all the major moves. Observers thought he would win the last one, too, finally emerge with the captive mines tucked away in his capacious pocket...
...Catskills, hopped off for Siam and Singapore in a vaudeville act, stayed in the small time until he met his wife. She contrived for him dizzy skits that released all his mimicry, highlighted his genius for making gibberish exciting and hilarious. A wow with them at Manhattan's smart La Martinique, he was snatched up by Moss Hart for Lady in the Dark. In Lady he stopped the show cold with Ira Gershwin's lyric for Tchaikovsky-rattling off the names of 54 Russian composers in about 40 seconds...
short-wave newscasters go in the direction of "counter propaganda." NBC's staff of 65 smart writers, producers and linguists has been working for democracy long enough to feel with fervor that the blunt American truth is the best antidote to Goebbelsian innuendo. Of the latter, they know through their correspondence (e.g. 1,170 European, 4,524 South American, 4,908 Central American letters so far this year) their listeners are sick & tired...
Some bad luck after the bank holiday cost Frank Cohen a good deal of his fortune, but when war began he was still a wealthy man. He was also known in the more anonymous purlieus of Wall Street as a smart man with a dollar. That is why, in May 1940, he was sought out by a group of promoters and engineers led by Raymond Voyes (formerly of Bofors) and Ferdinand V. Huber (freelance gun merchant). More or less at liberty, they thought it would be a good time to get back into the munitions business...
...Hitler. Frank Cohen is no longer just a smart man with a dollar. He runs Empire Ordnance from top to bottom, works twelve to 16 hours daily. He pays himself $25,000 a year, but he is not doing it for the money. Empire has put all its earnings into expansion, has paid no dividends. Besides 70% of the voting preferred, Cohen, his wife and his son own 45% of the common. But 15% of the common belongs to Esco Fund, a private Cohen charity which has sent vitamins and shelters for children to the British...