Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understand it. Maybe those smart managers of Joe's just didn't tell him about the cover. He isn't much of a hand for reading, especially such high-toned rags as yours. But he must have seen it on the newsstands. Anyway Cavalcade, being a horse, couldn't have paid much attention to his cover picture and he got hoodoo'd anyway. How do you explain...
...also been worried about its scandalous, booming black market in foodstuffs sold above the controlled prices. Already the Ministry of Food has prosecuted 30,000 cases, has got 27,000 convictions. One dealer was fined ?300 ($1,200) for selling three-shilling-sixpence young chickens to London's smart Coq d'Or restaurant for four shillings. Coq d'Or was tagged ?65 ($260) for buying at that price...
...press conference are the worst possible way to deal with matters of such great moment. These are things to be done carefully and thoroughly . . . not things to be tossed off in this fashion. Mr. Roosevelt is indulging in a petty vanity, which is that he is very smart. . . . Mr. Churchill, who has as good a brain as Mr. Roosevelt, does not do it, and President Wilson did not do it. . . . If the President is wise, he will henceforth confine his press conferences to domestic questions and to . . . action taken...
With these words, Pundit Walter Lippmann last week reprimanded Franklin Roosevelt for talking out of turn about religious freedom in Russia. Certainly the President was not very smart in arousing Mr. Lippmann and others. But perhaps the President was a little smarter than Walter Lippmann knew...
Several days went by. Officials considered using helicopters, blimps. The climbers had another try. failed. Said one official sourly: "We hate to jeopardize the lives of our men for a stunt that someone thought was smart...