Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day the U. S. newsreels were finally permitted to put their cans of film aboard U. S.-bound ships. Meanwhile Fox Movietone had received word that their films, aboard S. S. George Washington, were apparently the best. They showed more clearly than others the smart sabre work of Lieut.-Colonel Piollet as he slashed down Georgieff. Also Fox cameramen were alone in getting unobstructed pictures of the killer on the running board as he blazed away. To beat all rivals to Manhattan, Fox decided to risk sending a $50,000 plane out to try to pick up their film...
...Washington's photographer had excitedly unlimbered his camera. He caught the foam-flecked wave that heaved up and tore off the right pontoon of the low swooping plane. As she floundered in a mountain of spray, Swedish Mechanic Henry ("Happy") Johnson was drowned, but within 50 minutes a smart boat crew had saved everyone else as both plane and camera sank. The can of film that had now cost an additional $70,000 was hauled back aboard the George Washington and Fox faced a possible lawsuit from the owners of the plane...
...those of Arturo Toscanini. Stokowski's position in Philadelphia was strengthened materially when his great admirer Curtis Bok lately became president of the Orchestra.* And it is an open secret that Manager Judson is through after this season whether his opera scheme works or not. Philadelphians suspect that smart Esther Everett Lape is being groomed for his job. They know she is no ordinary secretary. For eleven years she has been the brains of the Bok-endowed American Foundation, promoting Peace, the World Court and the recognition of Soviet Russia...
...succeeds as an actress. Jane Waddington Wyatt will do so at the expense of the hollow tradition that cheap theatrical boarding houses, one-night stands, hardships in stock companies and the pangs of poverty are indispensable incubators of talent. She was born 21 years ago near smart Tuxedo. N. Y. Her upbringing in horsy Dutchess County was well calculated to make her think of the theatre as a place into which nice people do not venture until the middle of the first act. Her first experience in drama was playing Shylock at fashionable Miss Chapin's School in Manhattan...
...smart Los Angeles lawyer named Martineau was made a Special Assistant U. S. Attorney General and summoned to Washington. The Department of Interior's much-publicized Investigator Louis R. Glavis was once more in the spotlight. It was darkly hinted that revelations would be more scandalous than anything since Teapot Dome. Attorney General Cummings and Secretary Ickes conferred with the President. A Federal board was hastily announced to issue ''tenders" without which not a drop of East Texas oil could be accepted for shipment in interstate commerce. And. as the Washington marching and countermarching continued, newshawks were...