Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third occasion she had overheard one of her bosses talking about "the $1,000 for Yankel." That, she explained, was their nickname for Andrew Jackson May. (Added a committee counsel: "Yiddish for Little Jack. . . . It means he is not too smart.") Said Eleanor Hall succinctly: "a bunch of crooks." Pretty, red-haired Jean Bates, a coworker, agreed...
...took his measure was smart, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.; 210 lbs.) Leif Erickson. A friendly, balding lawyer with a big, booming voice, he got his start long after Burt Wheeler had become a veteran of the Senate...
Bill was the star. A smart, hard-working sophomore at the University of Chicago (where Leopold and Loeb were unusually bright scholastic lights), he was charged with 24 burglaries, four assaults with intent to murder, and one assault and robbery. He was also suspected of having shot and stabbed to death ex-WAVE Frances Brown; of having strangled and dissected six-year-old Suzanne Degnan; of having shot and stabbed Mrs. Josephine Ross, a Chicago widow, when she surprised him looting her apartment. The papers declared that he had made an oral confession of all three murders while lulled...
...purely period stuff; to others--if so interested a point in Noel Coward's rather halcyon development. To the more romantically inclined, it may seem the gay picture of "la vie de joie"; to the socially bent, a milestone of that smooth highway on which the London Smart Set zipped along in its multipowered Stutz, bound for decay. But dated or not natural or textual, the production at the Colonial is a combination of some of this century's smoothest dialogue, shouted, laughed, cried, and whispered by something rare in the theatrical world an acres...
...Detroit the word got around fast. The Canadians had revalued their dollar. Instead of being worth only 91 U.S. cents, it was now worth a U.S. dollar. But Washington apparently had not heard about it. At the postoffice, smart Detroiters were still able to buy postal orders for cashing in Canada at 91 U.S. cents for a Canadian dollar. The Detroiters cashed the orders in Canada. The Canadian dollars were turned in, dollar for dollar, for U.S. dollars. The quick profit...