Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third on the program was the smart, husky, popular encyclopedia who calls himself "the best damned no-trump player in the United States," Economist Leon Henderson, who used to work for the Russell Sage Foundation until he was taken to Washington for NRA, after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising...
...Abbott; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by George Abbott) beans the niggerbaby, hits the bull's eye, rings the bell. Far & away the best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...
Could you, when referring to California as the Screwy State, just add "Omitting San Francisco"? Really, all the nutty ideas and religions, etc. have all originated in Southern California and we in San Francisco are disgusted and ashamed ourselves. Possibly you are smart enough to know this and take it for granted others...
...complex matter than it did to Gibbon. Nor does he write of it with the majestic smugness that has made Gibbon an unsurpassed soporific for 150 years. The barbarians were really pretty tough. The emperors whom Gibbon dismissed as weaklings were really doing their best; the barbarian generals were smart men-besides, Rome was a hard city to defend. So in Robert Graves's books Rome falls with a sigh rather than with the sonorous crash that Gibbon heard, falls slowly, painfully, wearily, hopelessly, unaware to the last that she is falling...
...they were still awaiting acceptance or rejection this week by Federal Judge Thomas D. Slick of South Bend, Ind.* Judge Slick's decision is complicated by the fact that General Motors refused to make terms with the Department of Justice and its suit will therefore be prosecuted shortly. Smart Ford and Chrysler lawyers stipulated in their consent decrees that if General Motors wins the decrees are invalid, since General Motors would then have a competitive advantage...