Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witness stand, Miss Miller, smart in a blue tailored suit, told a sympathetic jury that Ross Wyatt had wooed her and pursued her for seven years; had kissed her the week he hired her as his secretary in 1931; had threatened to kill her brother if he interfered; had sworn to kill "both of you" if he found her going with another man. There were no real intimacies, said she: kisses and hugs, love letters, slaps, hair-pullings, finally escape to Chicago...
When Cukor "resigned," Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havillanc? charged into Selznick's office and in an emotional, sometimes tearful scene, pleaded with him to keep Cukor. Being smart women as well as capable actresses, they realized that the chances of getting another director with the same peculiar interest in women's roles were very slim. But they were fighting a lost cause...
Although unemployment is a primary U. S. problem, finding the right job is an important secondary one. There is no official U. S. agency to chart job trends and steer youth into the most promising occupations. Last year two smart, jobless young men started an unofficial agency to do it. By last week, when they finished their first year, their enterprise had grossed $100,000 and they had become leading authorities on job hunting...
...house before the show "so that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and on rare occasions he takes Gertrude "uptown" to the theatre. "They spring a dinner at one of the smart Manhattan joints, jostle in the crowds, and rubberneck the lights of the Great White...
Composer Walton, one of the smart devotees of arty London Poetess Edith Sitwell, started out in the early 19205 doing clever satirical fluff. But when, in 1931, he burst from her mother-of-pearly cell with a fire-belching oratorio called Belshazzar's Feast, the international musical world sat up and took notice. His First Symphony, which followed, got him talked about in terms of Finland's Jean Sibelius...