Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center season, Barrie's classic displayed a rusty but apparently indestructible cleverness, a dusty but still perceptible appeal. If the play sometimes seems quaint, that is perhaps because every woman knows so much more than she did in 1908. But few playwrights today know half as much about smart box-office methods as Barrie did then. After 46 years, his sense of theater and shrewd manipulation of sentiment still...
...world that was gone forever," Editor Chase confidently started up the French edition again at war's end, soon had the British and U.S. editions more prosperous than ever. Editor Chase was well aware that Vogue's prewar world had changed. "When Vogue was born into the smart world, there was only one language -French," says she. "Today our fashion markets spread from Seventh Avenue to California, and there are manufacturers in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas." Summing up 49 years in the editor's chair, she says: "Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess...
Nowadays, it is smart to be spiritually alive. It is old-fogyism to be ignorant of that happiness-producing transformation which people everywhere are enjoying at this time...
...Louis hotel until he had saved enough (in three years) to send for brother Spyros (now president of 20th Century-Fox) and brother George (now president of United Artists Theater Circuit). The brothers bought a nickelodeon in St. Louis in 1914, with smart showmanship and incredible energy parlayed it into a coast-to-coast theater chain by the 1930s, became one of the most potent forces in moviedom. The triumvirate's closely linked fortunes (they even pooled their incomes, drawing what they needed from a common fund) were partially severed in 1952 when 20th Century-Fox and the Skouras...
...gradual appeasement. Toynbee would consider both parties an "unmerciful pair of pedants." Both courses would in the end aid the Communists: appeasement obviously by strengthening them, internal repression and atomic war with all its terrors by making democratic life impossible for a long time, regardless of who wins. A smart nymph, according to Toynbee, would work for peaceful coexistence...