Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief puppet leadership ended with Germany's World War I defeat he has lived on a German pension. His chief sponsor today is said to be Hermann Göring. Finagling old Pavlo Skoropadsky is not too popular with the Nazis' Russian-Ukrainian expert Alfred Rosenberg, a smart man, nor with many Ukrainians who think him stupid...
Familiar indeed to readers of Somerset Maugham was the story's plot, a simple, violent tale of British mannerliness upset by tropic passions. Last December 57-year-old Sir Jock married young Diana Caldwell in London, brought her out to his Kenya estate. At the smart Muthaiga Country Club she had met the dashing earl, fallen violently and very publicly in love with him less than a month after her marriage. Sir Jock had tried to persuade her to go with him to Ceylon to forget the earl. When she refused he even offered to go away himself. Then...
Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...
...resort hotels. Whenever his job permitted, he came again, watched the town burgeon. In 1935 he bought a home there. When at last he and his wife decided that their picture collection had outgrown their Chicago house, he knew exactly what to do about it. Late last winter his smart, low, $250,000 museum stood completed in West Palm Beach-bounded on one end by the Dixie Highway, on the other by the road from Miami. Says Norton: "It is just the right kind of place for such an institution. Results since the gallery opened confirm our belief. Lots...
...upper schooling in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...