Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straightened it all out was smart, amiable August Scholle, 44, longtime president of the State C.I.O. Council, and one of Walter Reuther's close friends. His influence was soon felt. A committee of properly indoctrinated Democrats last week held a state convention at Grand Rapids...
Shrewd Evita Peron knew a good chance when she saw one. The letter on her desk, addressed to Agustin Americo Merlo of Argentina's Washington embassy staff, was a routine solicitation from the capital's Children's Society, Inc. for a contribution for needy Washington children. Smart Señior Merlo had got the society's O.K. to send the request to Buenos Aires for Evita to peruse...
...fast, exciting chase with psychological overtones-gives Loretta Young a chance to play a menaced heroine, a role that she does with high skill. Will murder out? Will the beautiful professor be mangled in the coils of her own guilt-or will she be stalked down by the smart, relentless detective? Her only escape seems to be offered by a handsome young lawyer (Robert Cummings) who loves her even when he begins to doubt her innocence. But Loretta is as thoroughly fascinated by the strategy of her accuser as she is by the fond advice of counsel...
...Accused is well constructed, well acted and less weighted with hokum than most psychological thrillers. It common-sensically concedes that a smart cop who knows crimes and criminals could outwit an equally smart psychologist who doesn't. As the cop, Wendell Corey, a comparative newcomer from Broadway, not only steals scenes from Movie Veterans Young and Cummings, but also makes the semi-villain so real and likable that audiences may feel the heroine has won the second-best...
...when he simply wants a job. Dreiser stuttered for a while before he was seven years old. He had a cast in one eye. He was bullied by older boys and overawed by his brother Paul, a successful songwriter (My Gal Sal), with his fur coat, silk hat and smart cane...