Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twitted President Coolidge. He first put in circulation the "dammed, drained and ditched" joke on Engineer Hoover. But his gibes were always in loud good humor and after a particularly spirited attack he would stroll off to a ball game arm-in-arm with Republican Leader Watson. Always the smart politician. Democrat Harrison played close to the Brown Derby in 1928, was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...Smart, brisk Banker Fraser is only 43. By training a lawyer, he has never worked in a bank which received or paid out cash. At Basle they send and receive cablegrams and telegrams transferring millions and hundreds of millions, on paper. Often a telephone call suffices. In their safe, some two feet wide by four high, they keep as a solemn joke two coins, a tiny 25? California gold piece (genuine) and a reputed Spanish sovereign (counterfeit). The important thing is that since the B. I. S. was founded in 1930 it has slowly become "The Central Bank of Central...
Subject to ratification of the treaty by the three Parliaments concerned, the Council of the Entente will set up a permanent secretariat in Geneva. Typically Benes was the smart decision that whichever one of the three little states happens to have a seat on the Council of the League of Nations at a given time will act with full powers for the other three. Thus, compared to other small nations who reach the League Council only at long intervals, each member of the Little Entente is assured of what will approach a permanent seat, something possessed today by only five...
...Gene Tunney was a hard man to hit around the head, but Tunney also had this fear. He was smart enough to know that one hard punch delivered at the right spot might leave a lasting effect...
With a total capital of $30,000 plus $18,000 borrowed, the Granvilles built & sold 25 ships in four years. The collapse of the private plane market left scant demand for sport ships like theirs, but also left plenty of time for experiments with racing designs. With his smart Chief Engineer Robert L. Hall (since resigned) Granville produced the Gee-Bee Super Sportster in which the late Lowell Bayles broke the U. S. land plane speed record at the National Air Races in 1931. It was in a new Gee-Bee that famed "Jimmy'' Doolittle broke that record...