Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marilyn gave out an interview in Boston. She said that he was desperately in love with her and would marry her if I would step aside. 'She waves her baby at him like George M. Cohan waves the American flag,' they quoted Marilyn. Now that was a smart line, but I never believed Marilyn thought it up herself...
...Pushups. At 33, Joe DiMaggio has black hair, beginning to be flecked with grey. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.) and solid (198 lbs.) in the smart double-breasted suits he wears off the playing field, he might be mistaken for a man with an office in midtown Manhattan. The tipoff that he is an athlete is his walk. It has a flowing, catlike quality, without waste motion...
Captain Kenny O'Donnell is a definite starter--and on offense as well as defense. "He's a smart player," Valpey says, 'and he picks up a lot of yardage by following his blockers cleverly...
...Quill, who had already led 40,000 of Manhattan's subway, bus and elevated operators out of the Communist-dominated Greater New York C.I.O. Council, locked horns with his own Communist-dominated international executive board. When the board refused to endorse Harry Truman, Mike countered by kicking out smart, swarthy Harry Sacher as lawyer ($6,000 a year) for T.W.U.'s Local 100. Said Quill: "He is a conniving member of the Communist Party and he has connived with the party to wreck the union. Sacher has an ego like a peacock and he goes today...
Oxford, he wrote (signing himself simply "Oxonian"), had become a hotbed of fascism. "Rather smart young men" with a taste for "fast cars and camel-hair coats" were displaying the books of Sir Oswald Mosley on their tables. They could be heard saying at their private binges that "soon we shall all have to be fascists, whether we like...