Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrote United Feature's tart, smart Columnist Westbrook Pegler few weeks ago: "There is something very imprudent not to say brutal about the record of the Roosevelt boys who have figured in traffic cases. Here is a country with an annual death list of 39,000 in automobile accidents trying earnestly to bring the figures down, and here are the sons of the No. 1 Citizen earning a joint reputation as the reckless irresponsibles of the open road who don't give a damn what they do because their daddy will fix it up. Everybody has to grow...
Giving no time for a reply, the banana king added, "But do not get the idea, I got anything against them Harvard boys. They're all plenty smart, you betcha, and next year they'll beat Yale...
...damn you, TIME, for your smearing article on that great and scholastic Liberal, Mark Sullivan [TIME, Nov. 18]. Did it. ever occur to your smart-alec brood of newsquacks to bother to define what true American liberalism is? Here's a challenge...
Thereupon stock traders, freed from fear of the Federal Reserve Board, whooped gladly and put on a brisk weekend rally. Headlined the New York Times: WASHINGTON WILL NOT APPLY BRAKES TO BOOM IN STOCKS; ECCLES CALLS IT HEALTHFUL. Said one smart broker, reading Governor Eccles' statement: "Best market letter in years!" Traders drew only one moral: the Administration's "breathing spell" for business is to be followed by a breathing spell for the Stock Exchange...
...inalienable right to sell its belongings at its own figures. Particularly stressed was the point that Macy's had signed no contract with Doubleday, that two strangers had made an arbitrary agreement which the State law said Macy's must observe. For Doubleday, small, swart, smart Lawyer Ernst admitted various U. S. Supreme Court decisions against price maintenance, but pointed out that the Double-day-Macy argument was an intrastate affair. He said that New York courts could overrule the New York Legislature only when the legislative act could be shown to be arbitrary and unreasonable. But there...