Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History can repeat the story of the South African Kaffirs and if Haile Selassie expects his affairs to return status quo ante after the shooting dies down he is likely to receive a smart rap on the "kisser." Indeed it would appear that the Newshawk Negus had better send his "obit" to the linotyper for the coin of fate may be tails on both sides...
...marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia's defense. In His Majesty's favorite phrase the entire situation is still "subject to negotiation...
Digging of the Gauley Bridge tunnel ended in 1932. By that time about 500 silicosis deaths had spread terror throughout the territory. A smart Kentucky lawyer went over the mountains, instigated damage suits against Rinehart & Dennis. Some relicts won. Some derelicts won. Many lost or sued too late to accomplish anything for themselves. But as a result West Virginia passed its silicosis compensation law, which in turn prompted the radical press to dig up the Gauley Bridge skeleton, rattle its bones...
...momentarily no women in the smoking room, men hasten to ease themselves of what they feel are appropriate stories. No reputable modern publisher has yet had the nerve to sponsor a really bawdy anthology, but with the weekly encouragement of such smartcharts as the New Yorker, such pseudo-smart-charts as Ballyhoo, smart publishers are beginning to see that anything (within reason) goes. The Bedroom Companion, or A Cold Night's Entertainment: Being A CURE for Man's Neuroses, A SOP to His FRUSTRATIONS, A Nightcap of Forbidden Ballads, Discerning PICTURES, Scurrilous Essays, in fine A Steaming Bracer...
...Smart Publishers Farrar & Rinehart have lined up a dozen-odd professional writers, given them carte blanche to be skittish. Publisher Alan Rinehart, only non-professional contributor, skits creditably on the perils of childbirth from the husband's viewpoint. Supreme-seller Hervey Allen ponderously parodies himself in a syllabus of an even bigger novel than Anthony Adverse. Author Rex Stout blows the gaff on how to water down love stories for a fiction editor. Newcomer Ed Bell (Fish on the Steeple) sticks a plum in the pudding, in the form of a small-town Southern story. Arthur Kober writes...