Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to tell what Shaw meant by Village Wooing, as he did not vouchsafe an explanatory preface. You are free to surmise many things: that he sought to show up the smart-talk writers from Maugham through Lonsdale, Coward and Milne; to beat them at their game...
Managing Editor Sinnott, smart and Scotch, went to work for the News 29 years ago when he was 19. In 1912 he was sent to Washington where he remained until 1925, when the Scudders recalled him to Newark to take complete charge of their newspaper in fact if not in name. He was a crack Washington correspondent, would have made a crack politician. Alert, shrewd, tart, he took no windy nonsense from any Senator. From his desk in the Colorado Building he could gather news direct by telephone from practically every Government official in town except the President...
...possibilities for the smart faculty member with a little business sense were innumerable. Although no professors are to be found who will confess to taking advantage of this bounty, it is assumed that their wives were quick to see the opportunities which lay in such a transaction. With a little judicious diluting of the consomme, a stretching of the buttered parsnips, and a stringing out of the beans a supper for two could be made into an attractive if limited supper for four. Net profit, $1.00. Again, if still larger game were sought, a simple, yet filling picnic of peanut...
Upping of steel wages was no altruistic gesture by steelmasters. The industry as a whole is still losing money. Smart for once, they had their eyes on two places-Washington and Detroit. In his NRA speech last month President Roosevelt had asked a 10% cut in hours and a 10% increase in wages by all industry. By its action last week Steel was shouldering forward to take its place beside Automobiles as a prize pupil in the President's class on recovery...
...least publicized and richest men in the world. An impressive fellow with a great spade beard and a hawk nose, he owned and operated some half-dozen lines of steamers, besides great quantities of real estate and at one time a string of newspapers and a batch of London smart-charts. Living in an almost miserly simplicity, he was only a vague name to most Britons, despite his fat checks to British charities. His last charity occurred when he died in Dieppe last July, aged 71, leaving an estate of $70,000,000. The British Treasury took enough...