Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general manager-elect of the Metropolitan Opera, smart, suave Rudolf Bing had been peering over the shoulders of retiring Manager Edward Johnson ever since the Met opened last November. This week he was all set to tell what he had seen, and what he was going to do about it. But before he could open his mouth, somebody else stole his headlines: famed Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel threatened to quit at the end of this season...
...made two smart investments-in American Rolling Mill, in which Colonel Procter was interested, and in Crosley Radio Corp., for which he was counsel. The investments, which he cannily sold out before the 1929 crash, became the foundation of a comfortable fortune. He acquired the franchise for a hockey team and formed a syndicate which erected the $3,000,000 Cincinnati Garden (hockey, boxing, wrestling and conventions). A Cincinnati sport and amusement promoter, Willis Vance, who had dreamed of such an enterprise for a long time, still keeps an architect's drawing of his project hanging in his office...
Meantime, in far-off Vienna, a flesh & blood pachyderm met a sensational end. For years the principal attraction of the Charlie Rebernigg Circus on the square behind Vienna's baroque Ehrlskirche had been a tough, smart, amiable elephant named Bubi. His broad, hospitable back was a favorite riding place for scores of Viennese tots. His sauntering shuffle was a familiar sight on the city's streets. Last fortnight, Bubi became suddenly irritable and turned on his trainer. All Vienna said that that was what came of keeping a male elephant virginal for 28 years. When Bubi was shot...
Perhaps, he says, "through various opinion-molding media, we could change the prevailing social attitude about heavy social drinking, and especially about daytime drinking, so that instead of its being considered obligatory, or 'smart,' even' the waiter would look astonished and disapproving...
...pound class--Kozol (II) pinned Smart (B) with a half nelson and body press at 6:40; 128--Abboud (H) decisioned Hendricks (B), 12-1; 136--Smith (H) decisioned G. Michaels (B), 9-4; 145--Sawyer (H) decisioned Donaldson (B), 12-6; 155--D Michaels (B) decisioned King (H), 6-0; 165--Rowe (B) decisioned Kelth (H), 6-0; 17-- Claflin (H) decisioned Marshall (B), 7-2; unlimited--Chernak (B) pinned Johansen (H) with a crotch hold and body press...