Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to clothes: everybody was wearing those lovely crinkly grey fiannel trousers effects, and I saw oodles of the smart new leather elbow patches. I suppose those boys have to bend their elbows...
Today the Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times. As in 1800, Marines are still preoccupied with smart appearance, cling jealously to fancy dress uniforms of blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the spit-&-polish tradition. A pressing table and a board for polishing brass buttons are as much a part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain...
...half-hearted supporter of the President, disliked by New Dealers, Connecticut's Senator Francis T. Maloney nevertheless coattailed in past a smart Republican adman and schoolmaster, 43-year-old Paul Lincoln Cornell. Delaware elected (6-5) an even more conservative Democrat: James Miller Tunnell...
George Frazier, '33, record critic for Mademoiselle ("The Magazine for Smart Young Women" who can't think farther than the next week-end party), has the following to say about Charlie Barnet: "I happen to think that Barnet's records are uniformly stinking. . . I can't tolerate Barnet because he and the music he sponsors are doing irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz." This is all based on the fact that Charlie Barnet "has had the colossal bad taste to ape the one inimitable band around today and the result is something cheap and disgusting." Needless...
...reports from experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture working in conjunction with private experts from Goodyear. In Belem, Vargas lunched with John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil's dynamic, smart, supersalesman, Valentim F. Boucas. Observers thought Goodyear would probably accept an invitation to establish an experimental station in Pará, might even build a plant. It looked as though Uncle Sam were already beginning to hedge against Pacific blockade...