Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorker, Manhattan smart-chart, ran an interview with Grover Aloysius Whalen, fine-figured president of New York's forthcoming World's Fair (seep. 35). Excerpts: "My personal investigation in Europe has conclusively proved to me that there'll be no war. Why, the uncle of the King of Egypt told me today that there positively will be no war. ... A wave of enthusiasm for the World's Fair is sweeping Europe. That's what Europe is thinking of now-not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group...
Herbert Hoover writes his own speeches, always has. Reason their tone has changed for the better: Smart Hoover friends, like sharp-eyed Sacramento Publicist Ben Allen, argued him into using his private manner in public...
...where a sharply horizontal house is abuilding for Son No. 4 John's parent-in-law-to-be, Fiancee Anne Lindsay Clark's eleven-year-old sister Joan said of Franklin Roosevelt, to whom she refers somewhat prematurely as "Uncle Franklin": "I like him. He's smart. He said I was one American who came to Washington without a set of demands...
...duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi, Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Calder, Laurens. Pevsner. But she had reckoned without...
...smart young man tried that not so very long ago and is today the assistant production manager to a million-dollar magnate, Dorothy Speare, film writer and novelist, revealed to more than 100 curious who crowded into Sever 11 yesterday afternoon...