Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wagon wheels. But the newcomers generally stuck to the system of sending spreads out to mountain families for tufting. Around Dalton, some 15,000 backwoods people took part. Children, expectant mothers, even hillbillies in their voluminous spare time, would do a little tufting. Families sometimes made $30 a week, smart money for a mountaineer...
...working on an ambitious picture called The Long Voyage Home (based on Eugene O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees, and Other Plays of the Sea), Producer Wanger decided to show Hollywood and the world a new high in artistic publicity. With the help of smart Manhattan Gallery Director Reeves Lewenthal, he hired nine of the best U. S. painters he could get to go to Hollywood and paint real high-brow pictures of scenes from the movie (TIME, June 10). The stunt cost Producer Wanger $50,000, left him the owner of enough good contemporary...
...Self-Made Man." Medium-brown Chester Olivier, 16, is also lower-middle class, the son of a Creole artisan who deserted his wife and four children for a mistress. But Chester is on the way up. Prodded by his ambitious mother, smart Chester is now a junior in a private prep school, active in dramatics, vice president of his class, goes to dances with lightskinned, upper-class girls, teaches Sunday school in the Methodist Church (higher in the social scale than his mother's Spiritualist Church), was recently voted "fifth most popular Negro in New Orleans...
...Century-Fox), whose title was changed from I Married a Nazi, owes its impact to a simple and startling idea. The idea is to show Hitler's Germany not through the eyes of a German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...
...used to be now that the emphasis is off new reforms, but still on call. Tommy Corcoran is the decisive, ruthless doer. Example: he recently arranged the shift of alien control from coddly Fanny Perkins' Labor Department to the control of Bob Jackson and Solicitor General Francis Biddle. Smart, loyal Mr. Biddle is a Jackson libertarian who seldom sees the President, but writes many a memo for him and his counselors, and is already swatting at Wendell Willkie. Public relations adviser to the President is ardent New Dealer Lowell Mellett, onetime Scripps-Howard editor, newest member of the group...