Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will smart less if you look at the color picture of Du Font's show on "The Wonderful World of Science...
Germany's three big fashion shows, just concluded, not only displayed the smart ready-to-wear clothes that have helped put chic into German life; they were also an eye-popping showcase for the girls themselves. Since more than 1,000 models are needed for each of the big shows in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, more than half of them are recruited from offices, universities, cafe society-and it is becoming more and more difficult to tell the amateur beauties from the pros...
...colors and the lushest of fabrics, range in length from wrist-short to shoulder-high and in price from $1 (nylon) to $145 (mink-cuffed French glace kid), the richest selection is scarcely splendid enough to make up for the bother. For one thing, women determined to look smart but who feel ill at ease with their hands encased will strip their gloves off at the earliest opportunity and spend the rest of the party looking for a ledge to lodge the gloves on; they generally end up wadding them into an overstuffed purse...
...yard high.) "Actually, we ourselves don't much use this passage," he went on, as we climbed up the steep curve of the first arch. "When we want to come over to the Business School, we travel on the surface." We began to wish we had been as smart, for by now the roof was so low that we had to scramble awkwardly along a cold, damp floor, and as the curve flattened out at the peak of the arch, we were forced to crawl on hands and knees. Then, at last, we started downhill, again able to walk upright...
...More Hands. The young men lured by soft-as-smoke ads ("With a cigar you will look smart") will be looking, surveys show, for roughly the same five-cent cigar that Thomas Marshall wanted. To provide it, and at the same time keep their earnings up, cigar makers are trying to eliminate costly hand operations. American Machine & Foundry has perfected machinery to roll any type of cigar, uses reconstituted wrappers in which tobacco leaves have been destemmed and ground. If it can produce popular, machine-made cigars, the industry will indeed have a glowing future...