Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still digging deep into the refuse pile of canceled airmail contracts. Alabama's smart little Senator Black last week plucked out some new names that made news because of their connections with the Senate...
...Whoever kidnapped Timmie may be a smart racketeer, but he doesn't know dogs. The dog is sick and can't live without special care. I've been giving him medicine ever since I left Boston. I have worried about this dog more than I did when my business went on the rocks and I lost $700.000 or $800,000. The dog isn't worth ten cents to whoever kidnapped him. but I wouldn't have sold him for $10.000. . . . The damn dog has something. He steals every show he enters...
...cast him as Othello. Annoyed by rumors that he was as lazy off the screen as on, he grew over-diligent, insisted on writing his own lines, directing his own scenes. In 1931, Stepin Fetchit ceased to be employed in Hollywood. Last autumn Winfield Sheehan of Fox was smart enough to rehire him. In Carolina he appeared as the stumbling, fumbling "cornfield nigger" dressed up as a butler. He will next appear in Fox Follies...
...your smart subscribers beat my record...
...deep in the commercial banking business, the Federal Government last week for the first time set itself up as a dealer in municipal bonds. Public Works Administrator Ickcs has on his shelves some $58,000,000 of such securities which he bought to finance labor-making projects. Like any smart bond dealer he saw in the present municipal bond boomlet a fine opportunity to turn over his capital. Last week while financial sections of the Press blossomed with municipal bond advertisements, Bond Dealer Ickes offered for public sale his first batch of PWA municipals...