Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate subcommittee which last week considered the President's nomination of Judge Clark to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals (Philadelphia) appeared Democrat George S. Silzer, onetime Governor of New Jersey. No friend of Judge Clark, Mr. Silzer called him "unjudicious," "unfit to hold office," also "a smart damn fool." The committee approved, the Senate confirmed the appointment...
...walking two batters. But Vander Meer, revolving through his elaborate windup and mixing his dazzling fast ball and his baffling curve, got out of that tight spot. In the ninth, young Vander Meer walked three more Dodgers. A tense silence settled over the stands as Manager Bill McKechnie, a smart manager of pitchers, strode out to the box and whispered in Vander Meer's ear. Regaining control, Vander Meer made Ernie Koy hit a grounder for a putout...
...post-War oil scramble was less heroic. The U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oilfields and Sir Henri never got over it. He began to fulminate against the Bolsheviks in the press and. Author Roberts implies, to plot against them in secret. But the Bolsheviks were too smart for him. Author Roberts thinks his backing of Hitler and his admiration for Mussolini are based on his hatred of Communism, which was born of frustration when he lost the oil of the Caucasus. And his second wife was a White Russian, his third a German...
Month ago Panama Pacific gave up the ghost, withdrew its luxurious liners California, Virginia and Pennsylvania from coast-to-coast service. Last week the Maritime Commission consummated a smart deal. By wiping out about $10,000,000 of Panama Pacific's debt to the U. S.,* it got title to the three ships. Already operating 47 cargo ships, the Commission planned to use the new ones as the nucleus of a "luxury" passenger and commercial line to the east coast of South America, to vie with the eager efforts of Nazi and Fascist shipping to corner trade in Brazil...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...