Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a public dance hall named Roseland opened on Broadway in 1919, smart young people had recently deserted the waltz for the foxtrot, were just beginning to master the delicate nuances of the shimmy. Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours were on the bandstand, thumping out such Ziegfeld Follies hits as Mandy and You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea. Since that distant New Year's Eve, generations of stag-line Romeos and their girls have bunny-hugged Lindy-hopped, Charlestoned, big-appled black-bottomed and jitterbugged under Roseland's star-studded ceiling...
...high of $41 billion, the increase was only half last year's $6 billion increase. And in October, for the first time in two years, auto repayments passed new auto loans. Said San Francisco Retailers Credit Association Manager Frank Caldwell: "The average consumer is a smart person; he is not obligating himself too heavily...
Patterson worked toward boxing's highest throne with class and precision. When he was not working with the gloves on, he was studying movies of Archie's past fights, and, with canny Manager Cus D'Amato. planning his battle, round by round. Still, the smart money rode with the veteran. It was Moore. Moore, Moore, as squat, cold-eyed men talked around their smoldering cigars about the old man's wile, experience and mulelike punch. Only a last-minute showing of "Eastern" money drove the odds down where they deserved to be: Moore...
...Eisenhower, voting Republican for the first time since going for Hoover against Smith in 1928. Los Angeles waited for San Francisco to record a slight margin for Stevenson (ascribed by West Coast commentators in part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they had carried the state for Stevenson only because Republicans (with 73,000) and independents voting for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd without his authorization (86,000) divided among them a total big enough to exceed the Democratic...
...Reluctant Debutante (by William Douglas Home) is the latest smart trifle from London, where it has been a hit for over a year. In a succession of glossy costume changes, it tells of a determined society matron's efforts to find a gilt-edged husband for her uncooperative debutante daughter, while the girl herself falls in love with a cad. In one of those splendid reversals of the seeming truth, the shakoed young palace guardsman whom Mother favors proves morally unworthy of such exalted employment, while the handsome cad emerges not only a verray parfit gentil knight...