Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Back. Toy sales in the nation's retail stores are expected to hit $1.68 billion this year, but that is no real measure of just how important toy departments actually are to U.S. retailers. The smart storekeeper gets much more out of toys than the $28 national average that is spent for each importuning child each year. He prices the popular items low, then sets up his toy department way to the back of his store, usually on a high floor. That way, parents must troop by counters laden with many other kinds of tempting merchandise before they...
...their stiff winged collars. The genuinely old-fashioned bad service that was being meted out impartially to us all was instantly recognizable as the real thing: a subtle, sophisticated Old World incompetence we Americans can never hope to emulate, the best our rustic efforts can produce being a superficial smart-alec rudery...
...such linguistic collisions did not deter a genteel, bejeweled audience from giving Mahagonny a 30-minute ovation, despite the opera's fiercely stated argument that all wealth is wicked. "Rich Italians now consider it very smart and refined to like Brecht and Weill," one critic humphed, and another suggested that all the fat cats clapped only to confuse spies from the tax collector's office. But the curtain calls had nothing to do with socialist realism. Instead, they were a tribute to Gloria Davy and Gloria Lane, two American singers who made Mahagonny a triumph in any tongue...
...seven-round victory over Sonny Listen in Miami two weeks ago was strictly on the up and up. "A sordid mystery," sneered one. "A malodorous mess," sniffed another. Some skeptics hinted that Listen's camp had engineered a betting coup-though Las Vegas bookmakers insisted no "smart money" had been bet on Clay. If it had, the odds would not have increased from 7-1 to 8-1 on the day of the fight...
...audience is howling at Marcello, the director is secretly smiling at Sophia. Beneath a rather juicy sense of fun he conceals a very dry sense of humor. Dry is the word for Marcello's humor too-time and again he gives up a laugh to get a grin. Smart feller. In this picture the laughs belong to Sophia...