Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also a part of his week was something that comes to few heroes, a court decision in Chicago which assured him some $80,000. His father, Edward J. O'Hare, was originally a brilliant St. Louis lawyer, too smart for his breeches. Father O'Hare became a wealthy Chicago operator of race tracks (for nags and dogs), notorious "front man" for Al Capone and other gangsters, and was shotgunned to death from a passing automobile a week and a day before Scarface Al got out of the pen in 1939. Against Father O'Hare...
Yesterday's starting line-up: RED WHITE Hornbeck, le le, Abrams Hibbard, lt lt, Kidner Hubbard, lg lg, King Lawson, c c, Smart Goodale, rg rg, R. Fisher W. Fisher, rt rt, Ellis Davenport, re re, Hosford Cawley, wb wb, Cole Hadley, tb tb, Culliton Perkins, fb fb, Young Gleason, bb bb, Waters
...This is neither an old man's war nor a young man's war. It is smart man's war," Nelson says. "Our enemies have made it so. They have made it essential that we do not underestimate them, that we not only match and overmatch them in the weapons of war, but also in the smartness and resourcefulness which we apply to all phases of the conflict...
...They Shot an Albatross" (TIME, March 23) is the most magnificent piece of writing of the decade. It should be placed verbatim in every schoolbook; it should be bound in every library. It should be hung on the walls of U.S.O. "huts," and recruiting centers. It makes my eyes smart with pride that I have nationality in common with Pilot Dixon. . . . My god, what...
Meat dishes are scratched from restaurant menus so fast that smart people lunch and dine an hour earlier than usual. To their best customers restaurateurs now say: "Would you mind eating fish today?" Fish is unrationed, but housewives can scarcely buy fish even at Black Market prices. Out of necessity more people are developing a taste for horse meat...