Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recurring nightmare. The broken bits of mirror reflect bittersweet scenes of past summers, and brown, foggy glimpses of London; a hysterical woman in an ornate boudoir like a candlelit tomb; women in a pub talking of postwar problems ("Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. / He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you / To get yourself some teeth...
Fired by both Chesterfield and CBS, Godfrey headed back to Washington. Even there, it seemed his magic had gone. "I had gotten to thinking like a smart-aleck Broadway showman, and people don't want Broadway every day. But little by little, I regained the humility I had lost. I got back to sunsets, fishing, horses. My interest in people returned. The show improved, clients were pleased, and fans began to increase...
...object lesson. People buy my products because they believe that I'm telling the truth. And people like to follow the example of a fellow they believe in, isn't that right? If I could do a movie that would teach kids tolerance and not to be smart alecks, then...
...easiest way to think of Arthur Valpey right now is as an eminently intelligent businessman who calculated the odds on a given situation and made the smart play. There was every reason for him to go to Connectient: his contract was due to run out next fall, he was faced with a schedule which is sure to produce few victories; and in that situation, the Provost could not be expected to guarantee a contract renewal at this early date. Valpey, being young, has to think of the future. All these considerations made the decision clear...
Aboard Miche, smart, young (19) Jockey Gordon Glisson applied the pressure. At the eighth pole Citation was a head behind. Calumet Jockey Steve Brooks finally took to the whip, but at the finish Miche was a neck in front...