Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many months past Mike has conducted his ever growing business . . . at his new cordial shop at No. 671 Lexington Avenue. Neither the law nor depression of present business will down Mike. To go his competitors one better in the smart neighborhood of his new shop all gin has been reduced a quarter a bottle...
...Lawyers Ahern & Fink had assembled eight bookmakers with shiny shoes. To them Snorkey was no smart gambler. One William Yario said Snorkey had lost some $50,000 in two years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost...
Today Baron & Baroness Shidehara delight chiefly in their smart sons, Michitaro (29), Shigeo (26), and in their unassuming, rock-gardened week-end home at Kamakura on the eastern tip of crescent-shaped Sagami Bay. On the western tip, thrillingly visible to the loyal Shideharas. is the summer home of the sublime Emperor Hirohito, 125th descendant of the Sun Goddess...
...clothes, snorts and smiles down at the jabbering crowd which always follows him. Immune to fear, ennui, embarrassment or surprise, he was not offended when boxing commissions suspended his activities in 33 States, nor humiliated when he was forbidden to dine with other guests in Atlantic City's smart Ambassador Hotel while attired in a green polo jersey. With the exception of his U. S. manager, handsome William ("Bill") Duffy, who was recently (TIME, June 29) catalogued as one of Manhattan's six foremost public enemies, all the members of Carnera's entourage are physically picayune...
...Tower Magazines (Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home, New Movie), published solely for sale in Woolworth stores, proved such a smashing success that Kresge & Kress stores followed suit by adopting two magazines published by George T. Delacorte Jr. (Modern Screen, Modern Romances - TIME, Nov. 3). The success was repeated.* Smart publishers then accepted as fact the theory that women who never patronize a newsstand will buy io? love fiction, Hollywood chitchat, etc. where they buy their merchandise...