Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet styles had always leaned to the practical rather than the pretty. But now Premier Stalin himself wanted Russians to look as smart as Westerners. The Red Army men who had seen the slinky silks and fancy figures abroad approved warmly...
Young Mao's smart black Russian boots and well-cut woolen tunic contrasted sharply with the padded garb of Yenan's comrades. He had spent half of his 24 years in Russia, where he had gone in 1935 during the Communist Long March from Central China to the Northwest. His elder brother is still in the Soviet capital...
Discharge Points? Republicans made the best of the bad week at the White House. Said Oregon's smart Senator Wayne Morse: "This Administration shows not only confusion and indecision, but also a lack of intelligent comprehension of the industrial and economic issues." Another GOPster, thinking of Harry Truman's massive 21-point legislative program, quipped: "The President has so many points that he'll soon have enough for discharge as commander in chief...
Many a voter guessed there might be gunfire as well as oratory before it was over, since thousands of ex-guerrillas still keep their arms in the hills of Luzon. But it was too early to guess at the outcome. Smart, flashy Manuel Roxas would have the edge in political sex appeal, and Philippine voters traditionally disregard platforms and causes to vote for personal reasons. He has always been popular with Juan de la Cruz, the Filipino man-in-the-street. Rumor had it that several rich island families would back him in buying up blocs of votes from local...
...Smart, balding, 45-year-old Cinema-director Siodmak is rapidly becoming Hollywood's top horror man. He looks, talks and acts like a European import, but was actually born in Shelby County, Tenn. Taken to Europe by his parents when he was an infant, he returned to the U.S. in 1939 as a veteran director of German and French films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan...