Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk little Senator, dapper in a different suit each day, was too smart to indulge in any personal histrionics. He simply directed his actors, the witnesses. And like the good showman he is, Bob La Follette provided plenty of comic relief for what was otherwise, grim, gruesome business. The comedy was supplied by the Chicago police force...
...Plenty Smart?" The C.I.O. was prompt in purging Gus Hall & friends from its membership, and none too soon. Even Labor-loving Governor Murphy of Michigan, while viewing the rising tide of vigilantism with equal alarm, last week flayed the "communistic cliques" in C.I.O. for encouraging "disorder, violence and bloodshed...
...brought John Lewis a new kind of editorial to read. It appeared in the New York World-Telegram, up to now fairly friendly. Still friendly, the bellwether of Publisher Roy Howard's nationwide flock was not critical. It said: "Until recently we had thought John L. Lewis plenty smart when it came to sensing public sentiment." But its faith had been shaken, the World-Telegram continued, by two incidents: 1) John Lewis' announcement last fortnight of a C.I.O. drive to organize Government employes at a time when "Lewis-haters were scaring their children with pictures of the Lewis...
...They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care of the breakage." Specially cooled freight cars take three tons of worms into Manhattan every week. Though all other Maine worm dealers quit from October to April, smart Kenneth Stoddard works the year round, hopes "some day to organize the whole business from here to wherever worms are found on the Atlantic Coast...
...more useful family connection, however, is Dr. Kung's wife, eldest of the three famed Soong girls who with their brother have long been the real power behind the Nanking Government. By marrying Ailing ("Pleasant") Soong, smart Dr. Kung became brother-in-law at one crack of China's late, sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, President Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minster T. V. Soong. It was logical in 1933 when T. V. Soong quarreled with Chiang that Dr. Kung should succeed to his job. Regarded then as second-rate compared to brilliant "T. V.", Dr. Kung has since...