Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were built, has placed goodly orders for Sikorsky Clippers, some of them within the week. Your statement is unfair to Kingsford-Smith, British Aircraft Ltd. and United Aircraft. Everyone in aircraft knows it is next to impossible to sell airplanes to England. The license of the Sikorsky to a smart British firm speaks for itself, but hardly in the language of your comment. Even the sum of money mentioned ($500,000) is far out of line. Somewhere someone's slide rule slipped...
...TIME, Sept. 23), but last fortnight that visit was out-climaxed when Dr. Buchman and part of the Team ate luncheon with a good section of the League of Nations Assembly at the invitation of its President Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Among the 500 people whom smart little Dr. Benes welcomed with a polite speech at the hotel des Bergues were: the Belgian Foreign Minister, the Turkish Foreign Minister, the Greek Foreign Minister, the Greek Minister to France, the President of the Norwegian Storting, the Ethiopian Delegate to the League and the indomitable Catholic mother of Austria...
...English-speaking schoolchildren get much fun out of the comedies of William Shakespeare. When they grow up they go to see Shakespeare revived by commonplace companies with routine reverence, by theatrical archeologists with tedious authenticity, by smart alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry...
...chief, Superintendent Harold G. Campbell, a monumental report. It had taken Dr. Bayne and his Committee on Articulation & Integration four years to prepare. It embraced, he admitted, "radical changes'" de-signed to fit education to the individual pupil. Under Dr. Bayne's idyllic system, every pupil, smart or dull, would progress steadily through six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high. With him from grade to grade would go a complete case history. If his interests were unacademic, he would take cultural or practical courses. He would be stimulated rather than forced...
...composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways of the country, and their strange talk, filled with phrases like "right smart" and "hit's a pity," carry conviction. But Mrs. Rawlings' educated folk are so plainly artificial figures that the story is often swamped in their moody philosophic talk and incomprehensible doings...