Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile at her dapper defender, Major Luis Albarracin. Only flaw in her appearance...
Hanya Holm's dances are smart, brisk, Broadwayish-no Art whatever and a vast amount of skill; and Dancer Harold Lang and Singer Lisa Kirk take care of the subplot in style. In the leading roles, Hollywood's Patricia Morison proves to be right at home on Broadway, and Alfred Drake stands forth as the best all-round musicomedy hero in show business...
Most of the class looked at the problem with dejection, but the tall, skinny boy with unruly blond hair started scratching on a piece of paper. In five minutes he had the correct answer. This week the smart boy, now 34-year-old Professor Kenneth S. Pitzer of the University of California, will step into what is now the most important scientific job in the world, replacing Harvard's Dr. James Fisk as director of research of the Atomic Energy Commission...
Solid Seat. Figueres was too smart to use the Legion and thus bring the Guardia down on his neck. On the contrary, he high-pressured the Legion's leaders into disbanding the organization and turning over its weapons to his government. Many in San José suspected that the Legion could get them back if it needed them...
...listening to the wild flamenco music of the Spanish gypsies, on which he has made himself an authority. Each year he follows the bullfighting season from Spain to Mexico, and like many another oldtimer rates the past over the present. Growls Gaona: "In my day the bulls were so smart that they spoke English...