Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Auburn is bringing out a Diesel-engine car. Errett Lobban Cord's company has not had a good year since 1931 when its smart, swift models caught public fancy and 31,000 cars were sold. The company lost $3,600,000 in 1934 and $862,000 in the first six months of 1935. Nine-month 1935 sales of 4,324 cars were only about 10% ahead of the corresponding 1934 period...
...listing the evils of secondary education: "The use of correct, trenchant and beautiful English among the graduates of our secondary schools is so rare as to attract surprised attention. Manners are poor, the courtesies of an early day are classified as Victorian and are therefore discarded. It is considered smart to appear uncouth. Lawlessness is on the increase. Political indifference has increased. Spiritual ideals have become less evident...
...title comes from a line of Rupert Brooke, but is otherwise harmless--there's nothing Brookeian about the play. In smart and sophisticated fashion it tells the story of a great pianist who is as skilled with the ladies as with the ivories. His wife doesn't particularly mind his penchant for tarts but when he finds a cultured and knowing tart she gets worried and decides on strategy...
...Kelly and Donald Sleeper, who made the Army trip, and Newlin Hastings, who did not, are still around. Sleeper and Hastings are Sophomores. Both are smart position players. Sleeper can run and pass but can't shoot. Hastings has a good shot but is short on ball control. In any case these are the men who are making progress with only the matter of time before they are ready...
Good Son-In-Law. A valued ally to enraged Dedjazmatch Nassibu last week appeared in the person of Emperor Haile Selassie's favorite son-in-law, swart, smart, bearded little Ras Desta Demtu. Two years ago he traveled to the U. S., paid an official call on President Roosevelt, presented him with two lion pelts (TIME, July 31, 1933). Last week found him at the head of an irregular army estimated at 200,000 preparing to join forces with a disgruntled white settler from Italian Somaliland, a onetime Boer Colonel named Siwiank, to try a surprise attack on General...