Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marie van Houtte owes her life to a smart Spanish consul in Brussels who argued the Germans into sentencing her to life imprisonment instead of setting her before a firing squad. When Germany was beaten she went free and France gave her the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. To perform her marriage last week up rose in the gorgeous robes of a Prince of the Church, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
...blowup had been touched off by smart, ruthless onetime Premier André Tardieu, now a Minister of State (without portfolio), who thought he saw his chance to stage a political comeback by posing as the one Cabinet Minister who would "speak the truth about Stavisky" and tear the veil of official discretion...
Because he gets around the world much more than other Bolshevik statesmen, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, smart, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar, has been tub-thumping for years in highest Moscow circles for some move to put a better face on the tyranny of ruling 147,000,000 Russians by means of a secret police of unlimited terroristic power. Last week Comrade Litvinoff got his way and dispatches from Moscow led U. S. headline-writers to splash out with SOVIET ABOLISHES ITS SECRET POLICE...
Beloved Storm Troops. Back in Berlin, meanwhile, Chancellor Hitler had cheered up Vice Chancellor von Papen whose son and daughter, members of Berlin's smart younger set, went about chirping, "Papa is all right now." He was not quite all right. Unidentified Nazi enemies in a last effort to get something on von Papen moved fast and secretly one night while he was out. The Government's muzzled Press disclosed nothing, but Frau von Papen told friends, "They searched the whole house, even the kitchen...
...year term went to smart, swart Ferdinand Pecora who drummed up the material which made Exchange Regulation possible. He might have had a longer term, but he would not take it, for he is ambitious...