Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caravansaries puffed at their hookahs and wagged a knowing finger. Richly garbed palace servants chattered in the courtyards. In Bombay's Willingdon Club the smart set gushed about it over chotapeg. The talk even slid through the lacelike alabaster screens in the harems. In the midst of internal revolution, with a Japanese invasion threatened, His Highness the Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("Junior" to American friends) had abdicated...
...bird will strut around challenging every hajjel within hearing distance. Soon a covey comes up, the leader ready for battle. Then the hunter blazes away at the covey with both barrels, picks up the dead birds and goes home. "They never wait to shoot again because the hajjel is smart-you can't fool him twice...
...chest wound and a Croix de Guerre. With the French dead of that war he kept up an inner dialogue during the 20 years in which the hopes they had died for-a true democracy, a true peace-came to nothing. He saw France's elite, her smart coteries and politicians, mock the victory which the common men of France had won by selflessness and discipline. What was the essential weakness of the French ruling class? Bernanos calls it a lack of honor...
...Thomas Kernan, author of Paris on Berlin Time) and married London Vogue's beautiful Nada Jellibrand. When he returned to Manhattan, Condè Nast put him on the board of directors. Special Patcèvitch talents are: 1) social graces and fashionable tastes that blend perfectly with the smart world of Condè Nast Publications; 2) a canny head for business management. The second talent is the one that is most needed...
Mort Shiekman, another player with two years of experience, is top guard on the squad. Big and smart, he'll be around in great measure on Saturday. His running mate, Ed Grain, hasn't had too much experience. Among the reserves at this post is undefeated Penn wrestler Dick De Battista, whose ruggedness needs no formal introduction...