Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Gone With the Wind entered its delayed birth pangs) must have been a dress rehearsal. Liberty (Vivien Leigh), the saucy, thieving cockney orphan, who selfishly climbs to stardom with the help of Charles Laughton, is Scarlett O'Hara's little sister under the grease paint. Smart Director Tim Whelan (Clouds over Europe) succeeds in making the atmosphere so realistically London that U. S. cinemaddicts have some trouble getting through the dialectical...
...being the only Broadway producer to advertise in the Daily Worker, no one has ever accused Broadway producers of being smart advertisers, and I try to follow the advertising policies of the large motion picture companies like the Radio City Music Hall and Twentieth-Century Fox. What's good enough for the Rockefellers and the Chase Bank is good enough...
...that Great Britain has 500,000 men there-and then tried to suppress the figure. The Australians and New Zealanders landing at Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended for a mile and a half, with vehicles standing...
...night, I remember," reminisced Colonel Apted, "back in them horse-and-buggy days, they took a smart aleck up into 29-30 Weld Hall and tied him up to the ceiling like a picture-by his thumbs. They let his toes just touch the window sill so he could give an occasional little jump to release the pressure. He was jumping pretty fast and howling like hell when we got there...
...TIME, Dec. 13, 1937). Eve is no more a scientific titan than Mrs. Roosevelt. She is, however, just about as articulate, effective, and well-acquainted all over the world as her White House hostess and considerably better dressed. On the day after break of war, that smart novelist & playwright Jean Giraudoux, now French Information Minister, with sure instinct chose smart Eve Curie to head the feminine section of his Commissariat of Information. To White House correspondents Miss Curie emphasized the point that French women are out to bring this war to a decisive finish. "Peace will not come soon...