Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Taylor has charm, but he's not sexy." He appeals to the flappers, not to the women who are a little smart--you know what I mean." Mae had an explanation for Gable, too. He puts himself over by force, "by wresstling with the women...
...considerable work at Mr. Smart's request toward a magazine he had originally conceived. But I must decline any responsibility, either as an editor or contributor, for whatever Ken turns out to be. This is not a criticism of the magazine. I haven't seen it. I haven't the slightest idea what it is going to be like. . . . This is merely a declination of an honor I do not deserve, if it should turn out that the first issue of Ken is a great success, which I hope it will be. But I had no hand...
...Addis Ababa smart Emperor Haile Selassie sold to Francis W. Rickett a concession covering oil exploitation rights in almost the whole kingdom. This Mr. Rickett offered in a quick turnover to Standard Vacuum Oil Co., and at the time many Europeans believed this deal (which ultimately fell through) would draw the U. S. into protecting the owners of the concession, thus barring Benito Mussolini from conquering...
...being quoted at 450-a catastrophic fall. Japan's puppet Chinese regimes in Manchukuo, Peking and Nanking will now cooperate in striving to make Japanese-controlled China's present economic chaos a trifle less chaotic, but the Japanese efforts will probably meet smart sabotage from Hankow's T. V. Soong, "China's Smartest Banker...
...smart Toronto reporter asked a Protestant, a Jewish and a Catholic divine what they thought of Mrs. Fenton's act, revealed the following replies...