Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since few acts are so damaging abroad to Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders as to print in full exactly what they write and say, the smart Jewish editor of The Israelite has lately adopted this stratagem. Last week club-footed Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, cracked down, denounced "The Israelite's new method of criticism...
Anatol Josepho is remembered as the "Smart-Immigrant-Who-Made-a-Million" with his Photomaton. Born in Omsk, Siberia, Josepho reached Manhattan with $30 in his pocket and a bee in his bonnet. He got imposing backing: venerable old Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, became chairman of the board of directors of Photomaton Corp., and Major General Robert Courtney Davis, onetime Adjutant General of the Army, became president of the company. Inventor Josepho got a check for a flat...
...Since the able mossbacks of His Majesty's Government do not choose to allow advertising to be broadcast from any station in Great Britain, their firm stand creates a facile opportunity. Some smart pioneer could sign up a string of small Spanish, French and other European stations, put on attractive programs in English, bombard the Islands with advertisements...
...debutantes 'will serve the cocktail which promises to have a truly elephantine kick.' " Driving his point home, he humphed: "I should think one of the things the present members of the Colonial Dames could do is to protest against some of the things that pass as 'smart' in modern society...
Packard's president is Alvan Macauley, a courteous cultured gentleman of 62 who heads the Industry's trade association. He likes to whittle period furniture and part models in his basement workshop, likes skeet shooting, likes to read in his bath. He is also a smart salesman who learned his trade under the late great John Patterson of National Cash Register. Months before the Show he began to hint broadly at a new low-priced edition of Packard's swank eights, super-eights and twin-sixes-but he kept his public guessing. Packard had dipped into...