Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates, frail, pallid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Robert W. Bingham and smart, sharp-nosed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, newly appointed Minister to Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania, promptly tried to save the Wheat Pact by proposing to offer Russia a quota 8,000,000 bu. greater than her hypothetical allotment...
Among Jews who waited too long in Germany is not numbered smart Emil Ludwig (né Cohn), best-selling biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm II. He has had a Swiss home for years, skipped Germany just before Adolf Hitler seized the powers of Dictator. Last week Dr. Ludwig sailed into Manhattan on the sleek French liner Paris. With an air of detachment proper in so prosperous an exile as himself he warned Jews and other citizens of the world not to blind themselves to the fact that "Hitler suits the German character. . . . What is going on there...
...Bowery (Twentieth Century). For his first production since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before...
...deposit insurance plan (TIME, Sept. 18). D. I. C. will requisition all Federal Reserve and national bank examiners, is counting on the services of all U. S. clearing house examiners. Last week to supplement this army of examiners, D. I. C. asked the banks to loan it 2,500 smart credit...
...Author. Wiseacres say that when a chameleon is put on a crazy quilt, it becomes fatally confused. On the U. S. crazy-quilt, most smart writers stick safely to their native patches, or seek like colors. Not so 39-year-old Thames (pronounced not Tems but as it is spelled) Ross Williamson. Born on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Idaho, son of a Welsh-Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene...