Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment came. The long black limousine bearing Franklin Roosevelt entered by the east gate of the Parliament grounds, moved up the driveway between ranks of dun-clad Canadian Wacs standing at smart attention. A great roar rose from 27,000 throats...
...idea is to start at the grass roots of private enterprise-with the nation's 2,000,000 employers (90% of whom employ less than, eight men)-and see what can be done about arranging for this production and this employment. If enough businessmen will do their smart part, the sum total may equal the beyond-the-horizon frontier toward which U.S. hopes are directed...
...James F. Brownlee took over as deputy administrator in charge of price control. Able Businessman Brownlee (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) has receding brown hair, might easily pass for a professor. Said he: "The [professors] I've met around here are nice guys and pretty damned smart...
Those who expect Gracie to sing in this picture will be disappointed. Not until the last scene does she join with Woolley in a brief unprofessional warble. But the show has a smart story (from the late novelist Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive), smart acting by nearly everybody, smart handling by Director John Stahl (Back Street, The Immortal Sergeant...
...some 30 U.S. fascist and near-fascist groups. What he saw and heard, and what he thinks about it, makes a bulky (544 pages), jumbled, fact-crammed book. * It is good reading and worth reading; it is a believable account of real viciousness, relieved by fragments of pure absurdity. Smart readers will make allowances for Investigator Carlson's enthusiasms, distinguish for themselves between stooges and stars...