Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young British lads and lassies had bundled into two B.O.A.C. planes, bound for New York. The girls, uniformly pretty, were outfitted in the latest British fashion, in the forlorn hope that dollar-heavy dowagers in the U.S. might be persuaded that London, as well as Paris, can turn out smart women's clothes. But the major part of their mission was far from forlorn. This week, socialites, diplomats and balletomanes were flocking to the Metropolitan Opera House to see them. Even at $9.60 top, not a seat was empty for the U.S. debut of the finest classical troupe west...
...good books, listens to good music on the radio, and has lately begun to think aloud. His wife Peggy, 41, is a trim little Irish woman whose scruples about birth control have lately begun to complicate their marriage. His children, a daughter 18 and a son 16, are a smart, self-possessed pair of youngsters who answer respectfully when he speaks to them, make moderated replies to his bitter wisecracks, and seem to him to have recently become large, mature and strange...
...think you're so smart. I'd just like to see you try to take care of a house and kids...
...film gets across the hard-to-grasp concept that being a negro is, like everything else, a relative thing. It does not insist that all negroes are bright, pleasant people. It shows along with the neat, smart negroes, the ugly, stupid negroes, demanding of the audience only a degree of intellectual honesty in separating the two kinds, just as it would separate acceptable whites from unacceptable...
Such recoveries are not new to Atlas Corp. or to slim, smart Floyd Bostwick Odium. Confident and ice-cool, Odium has ridden through many a ruckus chiefly by saying nothing and letting his critics talk themselves out. The son of a Midwestern Methodist minister, Odium went to Wall Street in 1917, bought & sold so shrewdly that he was boss of an investment company with assets of $14 million by the time he was 37. During the depression he snapped up bargains, now has holdings in some 30 companies through his Atlas Corp. He earned the name "Fifty Percent Odium" because...