Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After seeing your number 4 issue of March of Time, visualizing the naval maneuvers, I am wondering how smart the naval strategists at Newport are, or how dumb...
...dialog is swift or because cactus-faced Charles Butterworth bounds in & out to utter countless inanities, but because Jean Muir knows better than most of her contemporaries how to indicate unrequited love without resorting to breast-expansion or weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks...
Phase No. 2 commences when, haled into court for petty larceny, she is taken under the wing of a fatuous matron named Mrs. Parker (Katharine Alexander) who thinks Ginger good copy for a proposed book on child-raising. But Ginger, once installed in the matron's smart house, is bad copy indeed. She takes an instant dislike to her beauteous, black-haired benefactress whom she insults with or without provocation. She knocks over vases, upsets dinner with her bad manners, complains that "this dump is an ice box," thinks all the servants are waiters. By the time...
Such harmonious grumbling was not to last. Smart, left-wing Columbia professors were on hand to steer the convention head-on into a hotter issue: Academic Freedom. Keynoter Newlon and his colleagues made delegates feel that the abstract cause of Academic Freedom was their own concrete cause against arbitrary superintendents, corrupt school boards. Professor John Kelley Norton tickled fancies with a proposal that the nation's teachers unite with parents and workingmen of goodwill to hold the national balance of political power. In that Coughlinesque idea the scary Denver Post professed to see the birth of "the Pedagogic Party...
...knows whether it was Ebenezer Butterick or his smart wife Ellen who invented the standardized paper pattern for clothes. Plodding, methodical Ebenezer, seventh son of a Sterling, Mass, carpenter, sat down in his tailor shop in June 1863 and snipped out of 'stiff paper the first commercial shirt patterns. They sold like hotcakes. But when the Buttericks moved to Fitchburg it was ambitious Ellen who got Ebenezer to double his market by making patterns for children's clothes. Because Giuseppe Garibaldi was then a world hero, Ellen and Ebenezer designed their children's patterns after the Italian Liberator's uniform...