Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for this attempt to reform New Jersey is Boss Hague's fellow Democrat and archfoe, former Governor Charles Edison, 54, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission...
...variety to play Elwood with a quiet, wistful humor that in pure delight. If you've ever wondered whether Fay could do anything well but those wry and funny commentaries on song lyrics, here's your answer. Elwood is a gentle, vague soul who says he tried being smart for forty years and then took a crack at being pleasant, and he advises pleasant. Fay achieves a casual distinction that you would not be likely to expect from a vaudevillian...
...First's smart exploitation of its part of the battle was proof enough that Courtney Hodges was the versatile, complete tactician: he could stand and slug, or dash and slash...
...been acquired by a three-firm combination: Random House, Book-of-the-Month Club (575,000 membership) and staid old Harper & Bros. The reprint house, purred Mr. Cerf, with no bow to Mr. Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather than a caviar market...
...plan is the work of dark, smart Brigadier General Albert Jesse Browning, 45, the Utah-born ex-wallpaper manufacturer who is the Army's assistant director of materiel. General Browning carefully tested the plan on some 15 companies, then had it approved by Contract Settlement Boss Robert Hinckley. The plan permits contractors right now to begin filling out the forms needed to wind up a contract, and to work out an agreement on costs and profits, to take effect the moment the contract is actually canceled...