Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesse P. Wolcott, eloquent, smart, the man who helped push Bretton Woods through the House; Military Affairs-New York's Walter G. Andrews, reticent, unassuming and trusted by the War Department...
Take any distinguished teacher, smart Seniors will tell you. Find out his favorite subject and take that course when he gives it; do it often enough and you'll have an education. What happens when a fine lecturer with loving knowledge of his specialty teaches that very specialty is illustrated by Frederick Merk, his watch, his pointer, and his History of the Westward Movement. Implacable enemy of the land speculator, chronicler of lusty American frontier democracy, the slight, earnest Professor is considered by many to have assumed the mantle of the late F. J. Turner as leading historian...
Belmont Park was hot and humid as the three-horse field reached the post for the 54th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes. It was not the kind of day on which a smart colt would want to run 1⅝ miles - especially when his cut of the $25,000 added purse would only amount to an extra mouthful of oats. And the favorite, Mahout, who twice recently had bested the triple crown winner, Assault, was an intelligent beast. He was also without guile...
...smart errand boy hears a lot, especially if he happens to be the son of a President. F.D.R.'s second son and self-styled errand runner ("I'm the Roosevelt who didn't go to Harvard") undoubtedly heard plenty: at the Atlantic Charter conference, at Casablanca, Cairo and Teheran. How well he remembers what he heard may be something else, as his mother tactfully suggests in her foreword to this book: "I am quite sure that many of the people who heard many of the conversations recorded herein, interpreted them differently, according to their own thoughts...
George lives in a suburb with Georgette his wife and Georgia, 5. He is a smart executive with a big magazine publishing company. At a party he meets his boss's icy blonde, Pauline. "The eye saw nothing but innocence, to the instincts she was undiluted sex, the brain said here was a perfect hell." George accepts this information but has to verify it on a weekend with Pauline...