Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last Autumn Mr. La Guardia, a radical Republican, failed to be re-elected to Congress. As a deft counterthrust Tammany promptly began to talk of running Ferdinand Pecora as the Tiger's candidate for district attorney. Smart counsel to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee and a Sicilian immigrant, Democrat Pecora would split the Italian vote which Italian-extracted Fiorello La Guardia would naturally draw...
...crowned sailors, draped turbans. Stylists noted particularly that : Maggy Rouff plumps for small Victorian basque waists flat in front and back but spreading shell-like from the hips, fur peplums on street jackets and huge pouch pockets which flap from the belts of sport jackets. Schiaparelli, reigning favorite of smart...
...might have wheedled from a runner or other company employe the exact time that the bonds would be delivered, arranged to have a crony telephone the teller when he crooked a finger. The telephone would distract the teller for a split-second, and a split-second is all a smart thief needs. Once the thief had the bonds they probably passed, as most hot bonds do, through the hands of a "front man" (intermediary) to a fence and then to San Antonio's Commercial National. The thief at most received 40% of their face value. If they had been...
...Committee as a potent party propagandist among women. Distributed among 3,000 Democratic women's clubs were millions of copies of her pamphlets on the oil scandals, on civil service reform, on party history. She was long publicity director for Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel, started a smart-chart called the Washingtonian which suspended publication in 1932. In 1928 Democrat Banister was strongly anti-Smith but cast no vote. She was on the Roosevelt bandwagon early...
Ivan Maisky, short and stocky Ambassador in London of the Soviet Union, made the speech taunting the Capitalist World which his chief, Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, was too smart to let any Russian make until he personally had negotiated an imposing series of non-aggression pacts in the lobbies of the Conference (TIME, July 17). Last week Comrade Litvinov was sipping the waters of a famed spa, when Comrade Maisky rose to shout: "The results of this Conference are something less than zero! . . . The only lesson we have learned is that a profound organic disease is eating away...