Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when, as in "Tonight At 8:30," she can sing, dance, mumble, and drape herself over couches and double beds while singing Noel Coward's smart talk around the stage, Miss Lawrence becomes the most entertaining performer, the most scintillating personality, on the American stage. This particular Coward opus was originally presented with Miss Lawrence some years ago, and then consisted of nine one-act plays. The current edition contains only six of the nine, but the star nonetheless has ample opportunity to display her remarkably diversified talents over the course of the two evenings required to complete the cycle...
Last week the well-to-do residents of Bucharest's smart Parcu Filipescu section had something to talk about. A woman as Foreign Minister of Rumania, the first to serve in such a post anywhere! And such a woman! Although Ana Pauker, mother of three and self-made widow, lived among them in the Parcu district, kept a lakeside villa at Snagov, and rode in the swankest limousines (bullet-proofed), she had but lately "arrived," in a way most ominous for her neighbors...
McGrath understood, if some other Democrats did not, that it is sometimes smart politics to appear not to be playing politics...
...Gina and Wally brought the boys hot water, their meals, and the only English book they could find in the town (a well-thumbed copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and sometimes played cards with them in the evening. Chapp took a shine to blonde Wally, who was smart, and a year younger than he was. She called him Roberto...
Impregnable and indomitable is the only way to describe the Crimson Saturday. Not a Rutgers man broke through the brilliantly designed triple-layer defense, as smart a November innovation as the Stadium has ever seen...