Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends of Music was founded by a smart Manhattan business executive named Ira A. Hirschmann (vice president of Bloomingdale's department store) in order to impress a lady pianist he wanted to marry. Some men buy their prospective brides platinum rings. Black-haired Ira Hirschmann gave Pianist Hortense Monath the New Friends to play with...
...play, "The Sun Field" is talky and long-winded. Where Broun was witty, the drama is smart-alecky and cheap; where Broun was inquisitive and thoughtful, Lazarus' work lapses into a poor imitation of an Ibsen problem play. Only in some of the conversations among baseball players does Broun shipe through, and even then much of the dialogue is dated and thoroughly unfunny...
Immediate stake is the election of a successor to smart, little Representative Joseph W. Martin as the Party's national chairman. Customarily, the only fight over such a job is the struggle to persuade someone to take it. But 1942 is different. This time there is an issue...
...Smart Management. One day Robert L. Smith, 27, walked into the News trying to sell a commercial research service. He talked so persuasively that Manchester Boddy hired him on the spot as general manager (a few months later he was upped to vice president...
...Smart editors exploited young Seabrook's flair for abnormality. For them he covered deaths, murders, freaks, women bandits, gruesome accidents. Bohemian society was charmed by the thwarted, dark-haired man who shambled about like a hobo, was chummy with Arab sheiks, dined with African cannibals, plunged ecstatically into Haitian voodoo...