Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wiseacres paid little attention to him. The most important man in Venezuela last week was General Vincencio Perez Soto, Governer of the State of Zulia. From Zulia comes all Venezuela's oil, most of her revenues. General Soto was smart enough never to oppose Dictator Gomez. He lived simply, kept his books straight, and waited. Exiles in Panama insisted last week that General Soto had sent what was virtually a secret ultimatum to Caracas. Either he must be President of Venezuela, or .he would proclaim Zulia an independent republic...
...Corp.* Of three possible reasons for his retirement only one was given in the official explanation: ill health. Still living quietly on his 16,000-acre South Carolina shooting preserve, Mr. Hutton intended to resign, said the directors, "when the evidence was sufficiently clear that the Depression was subsiding." Smart Executive Vice President Clarence Francis was upped one notch, and President Colby M. Chester was made board chairman and chief executive officer...
Dead or alive, the vast majority of criminals are identified by facial appearance and fingerprints. But the Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery has been shown cases where tinkering with bones and flesh has completely altered facial appearance. And smart wrongdoers like the late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may mutilate their fingertips with acid or otherwise until comparison with filed prints is highly difficult if not impossible. Dillinger and Van Meter did not succeed in preventing identification, but medical men agree that burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton...
...Paterson, N. J., returned home after a runaway trip to Manhattan, Max Wilemchik, 14, told newshawks, "I lost my dog from the garage after I locked the door myself. The pup was smart. Still, he couldn't unfasten the door himself. I figured it all out and it seemed to me that mom and pop gave the pup away, because he tracked mud into the delicatessen. You know how that made me feel. If they didn't like my dog they didn't like me. I'm going to look for my dog. I think...
...lions, tigers, and elephants, whether in the jungle or in captivity, are always scary. This time they are part of a circus, and Wallace Beery is their trainer. When Cooper like Beery, then the beasts are completely submissive. But when he doesn't, then the tigers rage and smart at Wallace and bite his arms off! But in spite of the naiveties, you'll be in uncomfortable suspense when the vicious cats are turned into the same cage with Wallace. In fact, wipe off that cynical smile; you'll probably enjoy the whole picture...