Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hepburn's ambition was too pressing to be doused even by such a setback. After a short stint on the stage with Jane Eyre, she found herself with just what she wanted-a sophisticated play about high life in Philadelphia's Main Line society with a glamorous, smart-talking leading role especially stitched to her lovely measurements by her friend, Playwright Philip Barry. With the backing of a onetime suitor, Aviator Howard Hughes, she bought herself an interest in the play, including movie rights. It ran a year on Broadway is still going strong after six months...
Bemelmans was considerably more saddened by some of Quito's Jewish refugees who, in the pitiful hope of some day returning to Germany, were playing every possible kind of ball with the local Nazis. As for the Nazis, they were insidious and smart. Thanks to their magazine, The Voice of the Worker, the average Quiteno believed of the "damned Yanquis" that: "One day they will come over, hundreds of them, and kill us all with them, with these machines, with bombs that come down." There were busses named Hindenburg and Adolfo Hitler. And out in the jungle, headhunters...
...world. Studying science at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minn., her grave, shining brown eyes seldom missed a trick. Rosella was pious, too, and she intended to enter the Catholic sisterhood. But she knew that in this day and age a nun could be a scientist, if she were smart as well as conscientious...
...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...
Publisher Cerf had no such hopes. Smart Random House had caught on to the Donne boom as soon as it began, promptly ordered 1,500 sheets of its Nonesuch edition from England. Just as promptly the Nazis bombed them out of existence. Says Publisher Cerf: "I know for sure that no sheets of the Nonesuch Donne exist in England." Whether the plates also had been destroyed, he was not sore...