Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Chilean blood relations of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is his smart fourth cousin, Jorge Delano of Santiago. Cousin Jorge is a grandson of sea-roving Paul Delano, the swashbuckling Chilean patriot who helped to break Spain's power on South America's West Coast. Last week Jorge Delano emerged from a garage near Santiago's noisy Alameda de las Delicias to announce a triumph of which all Delanos may well be proud. He had just shot 30,000 feet of sound cinema film, the first 100% Chilean talkie...
...extremely smart is Cousin Jorge that he persuaded the State Mining Bank to pay $32,000 toward backing his development of Chile's first talkie. As a result Heroine Hilda Sour stars in a plot concerned largely with copper and gold mining in Northern Chile. As many shots as possible were taken in the garage near the Alameda de las Delicias which proved so noisy by day that most of Chile's first talkie had to be made at night...
...Manhattan hospital with a broken ankle in a plaster cast, Primo Carnera watched movies of the fight which lost him the heavyweight championship of the world to Max Baer. Cried Ex-Champion Carnera: "Look at me go down ... I fall. I fall again. Look at Baer grin, the big smart Alec." Then he wept...
While the Democrats were nominating Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire for the U. S. Presidency in June 1852, the Boston & Maine Railroad was casting about for some smart new way to advertise the candidate's home state as a summer resort. A bright young B. & M. passenger agent named Jim Elkins thought it would be clever to promote a boat race between Harvard and Yale on Lake Winnepesaukee. He persuaded New Haven friends to persuade Yale to issue a challenge which Harvard promptly accepted. The race was billed as "the marine contest of the ages...
Bank for International Settlements, accused Germany of breaking the financial treaties of The Hague and of Lausanne. London banking ire crystallized in the Times which flayed Germany's "direct breach of good faith" and, after rehearsing the many moves of smart Dr. Schacht to beat Germany's creditors down, concluded by comparing him to "the murderer who, having slain both his parents, pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan." In the general burst of temper small notice was taken of the moratorium facts:. 1) Germany suspends from July i until further notice transfers into...