Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smart, long-nosed Harry Bridges was moving into the New York area, but Joe Ryan had no intention of moving out. The nation-and thousands of U.S. troops in Europe-waited while they squared...
C.I.S.'s boss, said the announcement, will be young (39), smart, Nova Scotia-born Geoffrey C. Andrew, W.I.B.'s secretary. Son of an Anglican clergyman, he played ice hockey at Oxford, then taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto. His job: to distribute abroad ''information concerning Canada [because] those with whom we trade must know our . . . possibilities...
...melody nightly to the U.S. Mexico's playboyish presidential candidate, Miguel Aleman, a native Veracruzano, chose La Bamba for his campaign song, had it played by the faithful as often as the Democrats used to play Happy Days Are Here Again. In Manhattan's Stork Club, publicity-smart Dancemaster Arthur Murray last week gave U.S. dancers a first look at his version of the Veracruz dance...
...intricately propped interiors and a very pretty sequence of a rain-drenched funeral procession. Gracie Fields' performance as the English spinster is near perfect. And Connie Bennett herself, who has lost nothing of her tough, wiry glamor with the years, gives fine style and energy to the international-smart-set aspects of her role. But she is unable to show deep emotion, physical suffering, or simple embarrassment...
...Take an Edict." King Clode summoned the Royal Recorder. His Majesty dictated: "Write it plain and write it clear: No son of mine shall wed a deer." But the smart princess had already given King Clode's sons, Princes Thag, Callow and Jorn, deeds of valor to perform in rivalry for her hand-or, it might be, hoof...