Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch me' when they should be saying 'Take me home.' " Stores should be painted up and lit up. A dingy little store, slipping into bankruptcy in a Chicago suburb, quadrupled its gross to $8,000 a week when it installed new lights and smart fixtures. Window displays should be cut down or eliminated; the windows should be clear so that the whole store is one big display case...
...Rich, smart, handsome and popular, Vicente Eli Saadi seemed to have just what it takes for a brilliant political career. When a vacancy in the federal Senate occurred in the Argentine province of Catamarca three years ago, Deputy Saadi, the son of Syrian immigrants, was elected to the job by his Peronista colleagues in the provincial legislature. In Buenos Aires, Senator Saadi rose rapidly -to chairman of an important committee, then to floor leader of the Peronista majority. But one day he made a little mistake; during a closed session of the Senate he arose to object to the presence...
...worry about (besides another game with the New York Giants) was next fortnight's championship playoff with the league's Western Division winners. Greasy was reasonably self-assured. Said he: "I haven't got 30 players. I have 30 coaches. Why not? They're smart fellows; they all went to college...
Died. Philip Barry, 53, playwright who won fame & fortune from both stage & screen by specializing in smart dialogue among the smart set (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, The Philadelphia, Story); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Harvard, however, unveiled a potentially strong forward attack Saturday night despite the fact that a number of its ten goals came from smart individual play and not team passwork...