Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young people of today have not completely rid themselves of the belief that drinking is smart or cute. Our campaign will show them that this belief is erroneous...
What Assistant Professor Spencer could not put into his statistics is the fact that practically every preparatory school graduate, smart and stupid, enters college, while from the high schools go practically only the smart ones. The dull high school student becomes a clerk. The dull private school student may become a ne'er do well. But he usually has been through college, where he pulls his fellows' statistical average down...
...chief lobbyist for the McNary-Haugen bill was found to be ensconced in the Vice President's offices at Washington while Congress was McNary-Hauging. For this Mr. Dawes was roundly scored by Chicago business friends. The explanation was that Mr. Dawes, smart politician, traded his support of the McNary-Haugen bill-which he felt sure President Coolidge would veto-for reciprocal Senate support of the McFadden Branch-Banking bill, which became...
...wife & children. Well, perhaps not one's youngest children. One finds an evening alive with chorus girls. More beautiful girls than ever. It's odd how chorus girls in Manhattan shows seem to grow better & better looking on the average. One finds delightful dancing; even a smart song here and there. A German dialect comedian called Jack Pearl is very funny; one Jack Osterman tries and tries to be funny. One finds another good revue...
...wonder if their "Big Bill" might not have carried a splendid idea a bit too far, Mayor Thompson remained loudly confident. "I'm a guy," he says, "with the guts to speak right out. I've been attacked, lied about and ridiculed. I may not be smart but I'm smart enough to follow in the steps of the guys that made success." First and foremost on Mayor Thompson's list of successful '"guys" is George Washington...