Word: smarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sirat Grotto circus, was empty except for circus attendants one morning last week when Beatty brought his cats in for rehearsal. Five old lions and four old tigers padded through the timber runway into the steel-barred arena, leaped up on their pedestals. Sammy, a big, smart, well-behaved lion of five years, perched just above the runway. Then six of the new beasts came scampering in. Third in line was a winsome young lioness named Bessie...
...Ohio, Clark, Makley and Pierpont were wanted for killing Sheriff Jess L. Sarber when they delivered Dillinger from jail. Illinois had a variety of unpleasant charges against the quartet. Hence, they announced that they preferred being extradited to Wisconsin, where only a bank robbery charge awaited them. However a smart Indiana prosecutor swooped into town, extradited Dillinger, loaded him into an airplane and flew him, manacled and guarded by police, back to East Chicago...
...takes unusual merit or a great reputation to draw the average Manhattan art critic from his comfortable daily beat up & down the smart art marts of 57th Street. Most of these choosy journalists were down under the Elevated last week picking their way among the packing cases and fruit stands of Greenwich Village. Alexander Brook was having another exhibition at the Downtown Gallery...
...party when 40 members of the Nationalist Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling recruits. Reeling southward...
...captain. At 16 Try. Narvesen migrated to the U. S., bustled through Minneapolis' Augsburg College, joined up with the Y. M. C. A. He learned that education can do without money at a War prison camp near Salt Lake City, which he turned into a makeshift "college" with smart internes as instructors. In Lansing he be longs to the Rotary Club, works hard for inter-class brotherhood, begins every day at 6:30 a. m. by hiking 40 minutes with his husky Norwegian wife...