Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salvador. After Amapala, Honduras, the first stop (TIME, Dec. 3) came La Union, Salvador. The Gulf of Fonseca was ruffled by a smart blow and the U. S. S. Maryland's launches, in which the travellers crossed it, jounced and plunged. Like President Barahona of Honduras, President Pio Romero Bosque of Salvador found himself unable to receive the visitors, but sent his ministers of exchequer and foreign affairs. These dined the Hoovers at the home of James Gaylor, railroad man. The Maryland sailed that evening for Corinto, Nicaragua...
...friends, a smart-looking Mr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Herter of Manhattan, debarked with six trunks and seven pieces of hand luggage and the courtesy of the Port. Mr. Edwards took them in genial tow, commandeered the attention of two inspectors and guided" the party to the section lettered "H." A cheery conversation began as the trunks were unlocked and an inspectorial eye ran over the-Herters' joint declaration...
...ordinary murderer but the ferocious, scowling Alcibiade Bebe, who last year assassinated a brother-in-law of smart little King Ahmed Zogu of Albania, finally came to trial last week, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his crime was committed...
Dunedin, Fla., city of 1,500 on the sandy Gulf coast, last week made itself memorable among advertising communities. It lacks the industrial opportunities of Dallas, Oakland and similar growing cities. Nonetheless it wants business builders to settle there and for that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights...
Thenceforward the story proceeds to get Sergey McTavish into more and more trouble. Finally he rescues an American called up before a shrewd Soviet Judge who has a parrot. Each prisoner must poke his forefinger into the parrot's cage. If parrot bites finger, the sentence is Death. Smart Sergey McTavish saves the American's neck by rubbing garlic on his finger, causing parrot to cringe, not bite...