Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart Teutons sprung a surprise last week on the rest of Europe. They were promptly accused of trying to break the Treaty of Versailles, the Treaty of St. Germain and that other "sacred bond," the Geneva Convention of 1922. "Ach, not so! No such thing!" protested both protagonists in the surprise: Dr. Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister, and Dr. Johann Schober, Austrian Foreign Minister...
German goods would enter Austria duty free, and vice versa; but exceptions would be made to protect such government monopolies as matches. Finally what the two smart Teutons "really want" is this: Dr. Curtius wants Zollverein as a prelude to Anschluss, the fond political dream of Germans; and Dr. Schober wants to break an opening in the "Chinese Wall" of tariffs which surrounds Austria today, strangling her industries and national life...
...anger and in haste Boss Seipel rushed back to Vienna. Certainly if he recovers his health, if he exerts all his might to prevent the Zollverein he can do so?for a time. But the diplomacy of the two smart Teutons is for the long pull. By blowing up a trial balloon last week so tremendous that it overshadowed Europe, they turned the dream of Austro-German union into something concrete, something Austro-German public opinion can be educated to demand forcibly...
Also the two smart Teutons must have noted with pleasure that, angry though the French press grew, it did not advocate last week armed intervention to keep Germany and Austria apart...
Generations before the smart U. S. wordwangler Ogden Nash wrote his best-selling Hard Lines, an Oxford undergraduate penned the following allusion to himself...