Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though slow-paced and undramatic, The Way to the Tomb wins audiences (including Queen Mary) by its poetry and philosophy, wakes up even the drowsy when its ultra modern scoffers speak verse that smacks of a smart revue...
...workers idle because of strikes, such sophisticated detachment seemed almost naive. But U.S. clothing manufacturers, who last week faced the hard bargainers of Sidney Hillman's wise old union of needleworkers, saw nothing starry-eyed in the union's demands. Reason: through years of patient dickering, smart Sidney Hillman has in many respects become co-manager of all the shops where his union supplies the labor; the union has sometimes bailed management out of its difficulties...
Down curving Ankara Caddesi, Istanbul's Fleet Street, rushed a mob of students. They poured pell mell into the rickety three-story building housing Tan (Dawn), a leftist morning newspaper edited by smart Columbia University-trained Zekeriya SertelVsiey wrecked the old flat-bed presses, the crowd swept over the Golden Horn to attack the plant of La Turquie, which had suddenly turned leftist when the British withdrew their "favors" at war's end and Soviet agents started buying up thousands of copies daily...
...American's deal with the British to fly to London seven times a week (while Pan Am was cut down to two) now look so smart. CAB has warned American that if Pan Am is held to two flights, then American must reduce its flights to two also. If this happens, Britain and controlled competition will have made a touchdown. It will have succeeded in keeping U.S. transatlantic flights to a minimum till it feels it is strong enough to win the competitive game...
Three O'Clock Dinner, Josephine Pinckney's smart, brittle, readable novel about life and love in Charleston, S.C., loped off to what the New York Times termed "a nice start"-600,000 advance copies as Literary Guild choice for October. It also won $175,000 from MGM. Probable star: Lana Turner...