Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME really feels, as it claims to feel, a responsibility towards its readers to review books of poetry, may I suggest that its manner of discharging that responsibility is unfortunate? Even omnibus criticism owes the reader a greater courtesy than that of the smart epithet. You have shown, in your excellent reviews of the poetry of Cummings and Garcia Lorca, that you can describe verse intelligently and soberly. Consequently it is all the more disheartening to read your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than...
...Friends. Thus was crowned a friendship that began in New York City in 1907. When Franklin Roosevelt, fresh from Columbia Law School, was a well-dressed young man in the offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, he met Felix Frankfurter, who was the smart young trust-busting assistant of Roosevelt I's U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Henry L. Stimson...
...family to be reckoned with are the seven smart Kierans of Manhattan, sons & daughters of the late loved Dr. James Michael Kieran, president of Manhattan's Hunter College for women. The Kierans include...
...they have three youngsters, all bird-lovers and naturalists like dad, all until two years ago fully convinced of dad's infallibility. But then, when redheaded, tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...
Last week Red, now a Yale freshman, set out to get prestige of his own by stumping Dad on an Information Please question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...