Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his union strengthened, its complaints well-aired and machinery in motion to deal with them, Leader Gorman had won by the strike all that Labor could reasonably have expected. Last week sympathizers reviewed with admiration his smart generalship-his impressive sealed and numbered strike orders, his effective innovation of "flying squadrons" of picketers, his strategic concentration on drawing out irreplaceable loom-fixers...
...second scene shows what happened in a smart restaurant seven years before the Niles party. Richard Niles punches the face of his friend Painter Jonathan Crale (Walter Abel) for implying that, by marrying Althea Royce, he is prostituting his talent. The third scene, a year before the second, shows how Richard Niles got involved with Althea Royce in the first place and how he treated his old friends when he first got rich. The fourth goes back a little farther and starts to unravel the story of Richard and his first wife, Althea and the producer she deserted when...
Divorced from its illegitimate parents, communists, and neo-smart intellectuals --authors of a famous questionnaire--the Critic has started with an entirely new board of editors on an entirely now policy. It will again appear in its pamphlet form of over thirty pages, a quarterly magazine...
Plopped behind a fence in the centre of Northampton, Mass., with many an old and ugly red brick building studding its wide, green lawns, Smith foots its sisterly class in beauty of architecture. But Smith girls are not envious. Smart though not notably intellectual, they study hard under a first-rate, liberal, largely male faculty, end their four years with well-furnished minds. They play equally hard-tennis, boating on Paradise Pond, singing in glee club, producing experimental plays and operas. At the cinema their hearts, like those of a million shopgirls, beat hardest for ruffianly Clark Gable. Since...
...Author Suckow wrote from childhood, but had more sense than to try to make a living at it. While teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married to a fellow lowan named Ferner Nuhn, shuttles back & forth between East & West but still writes about home...