Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smart's Verse Best in Uneven Group...
...Leon Trotsky: "No one is neutral about him. Trotsky is either loved or despised." Hero of the army. His aides are as smart as any in the French War Office. Un-Russian passion for orderliness. A "phrase-maker," orator. Regarded by his "comrades" as a mixed blessing...
...Jefferson Fletcher '25, R. G. Allen '26, M. A. Cheek Jr. '26, J. L. Combs '26, L. O. Combs '26, H. G. Dorman Jr. '26, J. H. Durgin '26, H. H. MacCubbin '26, E. W. Martin '26, F. S. Moseley Jr. '26, A. D. Phillips Jr. '26, C. A. Smart '26, A. H. Stafford '26, and J. P. Doycheff...
...which acts in some measure as an effective prohibition law. The smugglers buy the spirits in Germany at one crown a liter and sell it to Scandinavian countries at six crowns or more. The perplexed police are biting their nails with anger at the baffling tactics employed by the smart rum-runners...
That is an excellent example of what is known as " Smart Aleck" writing...