Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flag was out at Sloan's Washington furniture auction house last week to mark another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman...
...Smart David Stern was mistaken if he meant to imply that other Manhattan newspapers had offered $250,000 to kill the Post. What they did, after Publisher Martin decided to kill his own newspaper, was to pool $150,000 for the Post's name and Associated Press membership, provided that Publisher Martin give his 700 newsmen and pressmen two weeks salary to keep them in funds over the holidays...
...woods. Like most New Dealers, he regards his job as a problem in economics. He is eager for results, impatient of procedure. And mistakes hold no more terror for him than for his President, whom he hero-worships. Early in his career he made two mistakes, two smart moves...
...first smart move occurred in a Childs' restaurant in Washington late one night in 1919. Lieut. Eugene Vidal, stationed at Camp Humphreys, Va., observed a beauteous, dark-haired girl in a debutante party nearby. Overcoming his extreme shyness he contrived to meet her that night and again next day. She was Nina Gore, daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore. They were married...
Lieut. Vidal's next smart move was to join the Army Air Corps in which he served five years, learned all about airplanes...