Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force on King Christian X's palace to demand that Premier Stauning make the krone worth 30 to the pound instead of 22 (TIME, Aug. 12). Last week in Copenhagen the Danish Parliament assembled and such super-devaluation was Denmark's rabble-rousing issue. Many a smart farmer was trying to give this super-devaluation a push by illegally holding on to foreign exchange paid for his exports, thus tending to create a sterling shortage in Danish banks...
...dangerous convict. King loses his hotspot in a poker game, finds the dangerous convict unexpectedly out on parole. While attending to these difficulties, he rescues a Long Island heiress (Louise Henry) from kidnappers, loses his heart to an entertainer (Dorothy Page) and a small dog named Hamburger. The smart talk, unfortunately, is the sort that goes sour in any mouth but Mae West's. Says Miss Page to the convict, who is patting her leg: "That's the wooden one-be careful of the splinters...
...magnificent sight. Imported from England and reared at the famed Bellhaven Kennels in Red Bank. N. J. by energetic Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, No. 1 U. S. collie breeder, he was judged best of breed at Westminster from 1930 to 1934. But many a layman, remembering the smart, friendly Scotch collies of his youth, has deplored the breeding trend which gave Lucason his looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled muzzle and skull collie fanciers have crossed their dog with the Russian wolfhound. According to oldtime collie-lovers, they have bred out the dog's brains, made...
...fellow Delt, and Pinky started for Hollywood in an old Ford. A few months later they bought a Lincoln and took a vacation trip. Pinky needed it. He had just finished his first acting--in M. G. M.'s Times Square Lady. He has since made Smart Girl. M. G. M. is going to keep him at acting for some time to come; and when he's out of greasepaint, M. G. M is chaining their hog-caller and actor to a piano...
...like girls who are pretty and smart. Girls who are smart rather than pretty, or pretty rather than smart, we cannot help feeling have missed something...