Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of a League committee which must examine the aggressions of Japan, and, since The Netherlands East Indies are within easy striking distance of the Japanese Navy, the risk of heading such a committee was deemed too great for Queen Wilhelmina's representative, who promptly resigned. Thus, smart Vilhelms Munters of Latvia came to be chosen, has presided in recent weeks with notable skill and tact over a League committee whose British and French members wanted Japan to be let as nearly alone as possible, while its Soviet and Chinese members tried to egg the League into cracking down...
...contrary by sportswriters tired of watching the Crimson go down to defeat after defeat, Harlow's eleven men are due for a major victory. For three years they have labored with gridiron fundamentals; by now these have certainly been absorbed. For three years they have been learning smart, deceptive football; by now enough experimentation has been expended on such teams as Princeton, Yale, and Springfield to produce the result of victory. Whether Harvard will win tomorrow is as important as the fact that it is capable of doing...
...Fulton, Freshman catcher and captain, is a flery ball player and a potentially good hitter. He will have to work, however, for Eliot Bacon, Jayvee backstop, seems to be coming fast and by spring may really be in the running. Merrill, Freshman third sacker, is, like Heckel, another smart fielder, but is as yet too weak a batter to became a Varsity fixture...
...havin a fancy new membership card drawed up by one of them smart young artists. An jest as soon as it's done, I'll see yer get a honorary membership...
...smart, brisk little practitioner of radio and cinema music is Andre (''Kosty") Kostelanetz, who once was assistant conductor in the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, left his native land after the revolution to become U. S. accompanist to a number of second-string opera singers. For seven years, Kostelanetz has been a radio conductor, has had his name linked frequently with that of Soprano Lily Pons since he led the orchestra in her first two pictures (I Dream Too Much, That Girl From Paris). Commuting last year between Hollywood and Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles...