Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article on silver entitled "Smart Silver" in your issue of July 29 I wish you would add one more item to the list of five results which you have quoted as the result of the Administration's effort to improve conditions. You quote the present price of silver with the idea of characterizing it as exorbitant.' I wish to say that for the 20 years preceding the Depression the average price received for silver by its producers averaged...
...hard knocks Japanese got in those days on the Pacific Coast, returned to Japan to become secretary to the great empire-builder, Field Marshal Prince Yamagata. Matsuoka's appointment as President of S. M. R. means that Japan's most determined militarists again dominate the Government. Smart, they put up a great smoke screen of announcements last month that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was appointing "milder men" to key posts...
Last week Stutz again made rousing news, this time in connection with what smart young SEC Attorney John L. Flynn called "a gigantic interstate stock swindle." Revealed at SEC hearings in Chicago were methods of mulcting the public that have seldom been surpassed for devastating certainty...
...Smart Girl (Paramount). When Kent Taylor rings the doorbell of a big house to serve a legal paper on its owner, the door is opened by Ida Lupino who three minutes later proposes to the process-server. Not impressed by her apparent flippancy, he marries, instead, her sister Kay (Gail Patrick) and struggles valiantly to help both girls through the hard times that follow their bankrupt father's suicide. Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked...
...pleasant little comedy, Smart Girl marks success in a new technique for its producer. Walter Wanger, whose schedule of ambitious productions (Gabriel Over the White House, The President Vanishes, Private Worlds, Shanghai), has never before included a piece deliberately designed, as this one is, for the supporting half of double bills. People with sharp eyes who have seen Shanghai may recognize a set or two cleverly redecorated and shot from new angles. (Boyer's apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before...