Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimminy Crickets ! TIME, please do not let a smart-alecky "future admiral" take you for a sea jaunt [TIME, Feb. 21]. "W. T. Door"-water-tight door in seagoing jargon...
...That smart crack you made in your issue of Jan. 31 about nosy notaries being unable to see figures on the 1937 income tax blanks because of one of Magill's reforms in putting the affidavit on the back instead of the front ! . . . I am most surprised that it did not dawn upon TIME . . . that before a notary can certify to any instrument, it must be looked over carefully to see that it is properly filled...
...About Music (Universal). Greatest asset of deficit-ridden Universal Pictures Co. Inc. is wholesome, rich-voiced, 16-year-old Deanna Durbin. When her first featured picture, Three Smart Girls, was started in 1936, Universal, newly taken over from Carl Laemmle Sr. by a syndicate headed by Banker John Cheever Cowdin, was $1,835,419.07 in the red as of Oct. 30. Three Smart Girls cost about $300,000, has thus far grossed almost $2,000,000. Six months ago Deanna's second film, 100 Men and a Girl, was released and immediately justified the added expenditure allowed...
Such, in R. F. D., are some of the unusual details of farming as practiced by Farmer Smart, a Harvard graduate, onetime editor, schoolteacher, Paris expatriate, and author of two novels, who three years ago inherited Oak Hill and several thousand dollars in cash. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a likely candidate for the best-seller list, R. F. D. is also one of the most enthusiastic documentations yet to appear on that rare phenomenon, an intellectual who intends to farm his "farm...
...bubbling enthusiasm for farming, Farmer Smart admits that his only successful crop so far has been "ideas, sensations, intuitions, feelings, sympathies, and delight in action." For city folk, his much-repeated moral is: Don't take up farming unless you have a "specialty"-writing, for instance. (In Ross County the average income per family is $572; Farmer Smart's minimum budget is $3,000.) Plain farmers might deduce a somewhat different moral. What is needed, they may decide after reading R. F. D., is not to teach writers to farm, but to teach farmers to write bestsellers...