Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political strength is that he is a cross between an unscrupulous Bryan and a political Barnum, a realist as well as an exhibitionist. He is a buffoon by policy but in his own line he is as smart as a steel trap. He has conclusively demonstrated that in Louisiana by finding a hundred ingenious ways to turn the institutions of democracy into the tools of absolute dictatorship. He is a master of writing jokers into laws. In the U. S. Senate he has made himself in three short years a master of parliamentary tricks...
...Smart Aleck" Sirs: . . . You better leave town after quoting from that smart aleck, Erskine Caldwell, because the Chamber of Commerces south of the Potomac will want to tar and feather you, and ride you on a rail for your dastardly inference that folks are starving in the South. I'll have you to know that we might have illiteracy, hookworm, inertia, lynchings, murder, pellagra and malnutrition, but never "starvation." They can starve in Russia if they want to (or if Hearst wants them to), but they better not starve in the South, because the Chamber of Commerce...
...Solicitor General, President Roosevelt appointed smart, Kentucky-born Stanley Reed, RFC General Counsel who helped to present the Administration's arguments in the gold cases...
...were group leaders of the ordinary S. A. Storm Troops, long since fallen from the Führer's favor. They now seem destined to brownshirt oblivion as a new Nazi Army bursts out into field grey under Reichswehr officers of War renown (see p. 23). Last week smart Adolf Hitler, when he decided to make the Great News, first ordered S. A. Storm Troop leaders to hurry from all parts of the Fatherland to the town in which he knew they could make least trouble. Oberammergau. There, after the news broke, passion ran high. Snarled a Storm Troop...
...visit to Paris, inherits his aunt's dressmaking establishment and marries a Russian princess, was one of the hit shows of the 1933-34 theatrical season in Manhattan. Now, further decorated and enlarged to suit the tastes of cinemaddicts, it has become a thoroughly enjoyable musicomedy of the smart rather than the spectacular type, which can be recommended to students of singing, dancing and next season's female fashions...