Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polish Government in Exile appointed Deputy Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk acting Premier, said he had been a "collaborator" of Sikorski's. But if strong, smart General Sikorski had been unable to check Polish chauvinism, Mikolajczyk more than had his work...
...Hoyt will be in his new job (or even whether he had one); many a man successful in private business has sunk in bureaucracy's quicksands. But they did know that Ep Hoyt, the up-from-the-ranks editor and publisher of the popular Portland Oregonian is patient, smart, has a rare knack of making and keeping friends. They felt sure that, given half a chance, he could click...
...Wonder. But Lumberman Cox was no babe in the woods. He was smart enough to listen to the manager he had hired: the onetime Boy Wonder, Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, who has learned plenty in the 19 years since he led the Washington Senators to a world championship...
Married. Agnes George de Mille, 34, smart choreographer; and U.S. Army Air Forces Lieut. Walter Prude, 33; each for the first time; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Daughter of Hollywoodsman William de Mille (Cecil's brother), she devised the dances for Broadway's current musical smash, Oklahoma...
...copy of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, translated into Japanese. "I wanted her never to forget the first man and perhaps the last who kissed her." That idyllic interlude was soon lost in the travels in industrial Japan, Korea, Occupied China, in questionings by the police, grafting by smart young Japanese racketeers, and a growing knowledge of how systematically Japan was preparing for war with the U.S. Says Patric: the coprosperity sphere in Asia means much to the average Japanese. Huey Long's "Every man a king" seems picayune in comparison...