Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dept. I.Q. In Sylvia, Kans., Arthur Learned married Alice Smart...
...through as many costume changes as Auntie Mame, comes out for the finale, Limehouse Blues, in an Oriental gown and Chinese makeup. She sings hot songs (Anything Goes) and cool (Why Can't You Behave), as well as specialty numbers, e.g., Good Little Girls Go to Heaven ("and smart little girls go to Bergdorf's"). Her primary gifts are a voice with volume where she wants it and a figure to match. She can be sultry and sexy, playful and cute, lonely and sad, all without losing her cultivated air of stylishness...
...fashion magazine, Queen: "Society smiles on all the up-and-coming money and enjoys it. but then withdraws into its own inner circle." In Stevens' world, the,socially important "ins" compromise brilliantly with the new-rich "outs." "Ascot, Lord's the Royal Academy, Henley are still very smart and as important as ever," and the ins cunningly let enough of the outs into Ascot at ten guineas a head to pay for the "necessary pomp and glamour...
...junior advertising executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes to describe...
...thing, the fielding has been average at best; and on occasion it has been horrendous. And more important still, this has not been a smart team. Alertness, resourcefulness, the ability to make the best of opportunities: those are important characteristics of all truly good baseball squads. And it is just here that Harvard has been conspicuously lacking--however great its raw physical talent in other areas...