Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a smart art dealer has been sued by a customer who thinks he has been gypped. But few are the art lovers smart enough to get themselves sued by a dealer on the same grounds. Embroiled in a lawsuit in Hollywood, Calif, last week was a smart, grey, stocky art collector named Dr. U. (for Ulrich) L. (for he won't say what) Di Ghilini. Dr. Di Ghilini is a magician, an adept at exposing fake mediums, who baffles and intrigues the cinema...
...centre strip, soon to be hedged with small fir trees, divides the four lanes into two. No signboards mar the way or confuse the eye-its only borders are the misty, pine-edged hillsides of the Alleghenies. Ten smart Esso stations, finished Pennsylvania-Dutch fashion in native wood and stone, specialize in restroom toilet seats sterilized by ultraviolet ray after every...
...Gamble. Ever since the war began Germany has tried to bring in Japan on her side. Lately U. S. aid to Great Britain has been an increasing menace to Germany. A month ago Germany began putting heavy pressure on Japan. One of Joachim von Ribbentrop's smart, tough young men, Heinrich von Stahmer, went to Moscow, told Joseph Stalin's man Molotov what was afoot, and continued on to Tokyo. There he was known as ''Germany's masked special envoy." Nearly every day he went to see Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's ambitious, daring Foreign...
Aristocrat turned Socialist, Federico Pinedo, Finance Minister in the new Argentine Cabinet, combines progressive economic views with smart financial moves. When he was Finance Minister once before (1933), Pinedo created the Central Bank and the present Foreign Exchange Control, topped off these with a brilliant maneuver: he alchemized a British loan from credit figures on the books of British banks into actual gold metal, shipped the metal to Argentina, turned it into pesos and marked up a profit of millions of pesos in the national treasury...
...twist, which in this case is the glorification of an intelligent mistress who knows and fears that marriage will mean the end of real love. Johnson has an interesting story to tell, but again, it is a little too "surfacey," too hypnotized by the lure of depicting the "smart life...