Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, there was a ceremony in a dark Soviet registry office. Then there was a smart wedding at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Louis, followed by a reception at Clara's home. "There were gallons of vodka," Alf recalls, "and the British and Russians tearfully swore vows of eternal friendship." Less than a year later, Hall was sent back to London. Clara said goodbye at Moscow airport, expecting to get her London visa in a few days. Then & there the trouble began. The Soviet government, which does not like its women to marry foreigners and does...
...Behind the movers came the carpenters, with blueprints to make over Upper Row, on the Red Square's east side. Three weeks had passed since Premier Georgy Malenkov (sounding more like the editor of Vogue than boss of all the Russians) announced that "we must develop attractive textiles, smart clothing, elegant footwear...
...inefficient, that mass production can pay off. Rosenfeld sells 2,500,000 well-designed dresses a year, all retailing from $14.95 to $35. His secrets: 1) buy in bulk; 2) break down dressmaking into separate, specialized operations, e.g., collar-making, pocket-making, buttonhole-making; 3) keep design simple and smart...
...people remember Adolf Hitler as a thinker. Yet he was one-the kind that is all too frequently found in saloons or on park benches, spinning grandiose, hate-laden theories about the world, tossing off answers to all questions in a manner that the Germans call dumm-schlau (stupid-smart). Such men are usually ignored by others as annoying but unimportant cranks. By a tragedy of history, Adolf Hitler gained the power to put his rambling, dumm-schlaue theories into practice...
...business department, later as chief of the legal department. When Goetz & Spitz merged their International Pictures Co. with Universal in 1947, he became vice president and general manager of studio operations, won a reputation as an able cost-cutting producer with an eye for good story material and smart casting. Ailing Executive Spitz plans to retire, but Producer Goetz hopes to start his own studio...