Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to be seen in such revues as Ritz Revue, Almanac, Earl Carroll's Vanities. Then five years ago Jimmy Savo dropped out of sight. Suddenly last year he popped up again. Almost every month his squinty eyes, bangs and button nose could be found in some glossy smart-chart because Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur were featuring him in a much-publicized cinema-which has yet to be released. That was the signal for Manhattan literati and humorists to "discover" in Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even if, as critics unanimously predicted, Parade proves to be theatrical medicine...
...smarter, more successful people. He was tall and well-built. No one could withstand his famous charm. He was the top, and he knew it. But do you suppose Tom was happy? Not a bit of it. Something was lacking. What that something was, Tom was not quite smart enough to figure out. But he felt the need of a change, and decided to get away from it all, moisten the lips and start afresh...
...only applicants smart enough to step forward with a plan embracing every project to be undertaken in their state, the La Follettes got $100,000,000 for Wisconsin. Strings: the State must raise another $105,000,000 needed for its 140-odd projects, must arrange to repay $30,000,000 of the Federal Government's advance...
...despite his hoarse profanity, his swaggering and sabre rattling, had been in poor health for years. He was a martyr to severe attacks of asthma ever since his exile in Siberia 48 years ago. Thus several days ago when a famed cancer specialist arrived from Vienna, few Poles were smart enough to guess the reason, and three weeks ago when Poland adopted a new Constitution putting in legal form the system under which the country has run for years, and giving Puppet President Ignatz Moscicki the powers of a real dictator (TIME, May 6), all the world accepted the official...
Hundreds of smart businessmen went to Chicago's Palmer House last week to inspect the most complete assortment of typical U. S. gadgets, gimcracks, knick-knacks and thingumabobs ever assembled. It was the fifth annual Premium Buyers' Exposition, to which went representatives of all the big U. S. companies that like to tickle their customers with offers of something for nothing - or almost nothing. High-piled was the Palmer House with balloons, sheets, watch fobs, razor blades, doll carriages, billfolds, tumblers, electric irons, toasters, waffle irons, windproof cigaret lighters, astrological charts, pith helmets. Careening up & down the crowded...