Word: outsmarting
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...wholesale. It is a first-rate translation of one of Dumas' most picturesque stories. In it, a handsome, blond British actor named Robert Donat appears as Dantes, the French officer who, unjustly imprisoned in a dungeon, escapes to find buried treasure on a desert island and returns to outsmart his persecutors. Elissa Landi is Mercedes who, although forced into an unwelcome marriage when her lover goes to jail, remains sufficiently faithful, after her husband dies, to marry her inamorato when he returns. Good shot: the Abbe Faria (O. P. Heggie) suddenly poking his head through a tunnel and discovering...
...Reich, One Leader. In every crisis high-strung, intuitive Adolf Hitler endeavors to act with lightning speed to outsmart his enemies and rivals. Day & night last week a special telephone wire was constantly kept open between the Chancellor's headquarters and the home of the dying President. In the afternoon, when death by dawn seemed certain, Chancellor Hitler left Berlin by plane and arrived at Neudeck with his personal photographer. Only strenuous remonstrance by Col. Oscar von Hindenburg prevented the taking of deathbed flashlight pictures of Nazi Hitler by the side of Hero Hindenburg. Sinking fast, Old Paul barely recognized...
...Government's money, since the Army could have bought such kits for 32? each. As the week wore on and the investigation continued, the Army purchase price shifted uncertainly with the testimony of various witnesses. The net impression created was that a fast-thinking supersalesman had managed to outsmart the best minds in the War Department, the Budget Bureau, the C. C. C. and the White House. Key man in the inquiry was small, wrinkled Louis McHenry Howe. President Roosevelt's No. 1 Secretary and close friend...
...Gladstone- To Adam Smith, who published his epochal The Wealth of Nations in 1776, occurred the unusual idea that when anything is bought or sold profit accrues to both buyer and seller. Before Thinker Smith and since, the tendency of human nature has been to assume that the seller outsmarts the buyer. Nations try to outsmart each other by selling more than they buy. Each assumes that by erecting a tariff wall it will smartly reduce its own purchases (imports) while continuing to push its sales (exports...
...head of Tammany Hall through the inability of the Sachems to muster a majority vote in favor of someone else. Each passing year they have expected Time to settle their Grand Sachembarrassment by making a vacancy, but Mr. Voorhis, now nearly 102 and in good health, has continued to outsmart them...