Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State convention, he was nominated despite potent opposition by obtaining a last-minute switch of the Louisville delegation. His campaign for Governor began as soon as he started presiding over the Senate. Whenever Governor Ruby Laffoon left the State, Lieutenant Governor Happy played Governor. Among other smart tricks, he made Jim Farley and the late Louis Howe honorary colonels...
MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman-Harcourt, Brace ($2). (Published serially in Cottier's as Sunset Voyage.) Swift skulduggery on a Japanese freighter; several murders, spies, missing military plans, a blackmailer, runaway heiress and smart newspaper man. Better than average...
...pronoun did not refer solely to smart Cliff Knoble. Signer and buyer of the advertisement was The Middle' Class Alliance Inc., composed of small merchants, professional men and upper-salaried white-collar workers who thought they, too, had been caught in the middle. Promoter Knoble placed another full-page advertisement to appear in the Free Press this week, and he hoped to place more if $3 annual dues and contributions flow in properly...
...Rage of Paris (Universal). While most of its major competitors were making large profits, Universal in its last fiscal year (ending October 30, 1937) lost over $1,000,000. What made this especially impressive was that it occurred in spite of Three Smart Girls, one of the big money-making pictures of the year, which grossed a total of nearly $2,000,000. Star of Three Smart Girls and two subsequent Universal hits is blithe, bouncing, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. Suspecting that it needed, if not another Durbin, at least a running mate of comparable calibre, Universal acquired...
...promotion among doctors. In its general advertising Philip Morris merely uses round phrases such as "Doctors have agreed that Philip Morris is less irritating to the throat." This sort of talk would presumably have made little impression in a world full of cigaret claims had not Philip Morris' smart advertising agent Milton Biow had a brain wave. He remembered an old Philip Morris slogan, "Call for Philip Morris," and hired a shrill-voiced dwarf named John Roventini to chant it on the radio...