Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boom. The smart board of political strategy which has advised Governor Earle consists of Senator Guffey and of David L. Lawrence, who is the Governor's Secretary of the Commonwealth and patronage dispenser. Although Mr. Guffey bosses the machine, Governor Earle does not always obey him. This year, for example, he backed a bill for adding an extra brakeman to freight and passenger train crews. Labor wanted it but Senator Guffey, who is campaigning for lower freight rates on coal, opposed it. With the aid of David Lawrence, the Governor got the Legislature to pass...
...evacuating Leftists left most of them intact, confined themselves to such melodramatic but relatively unimportant gestures as dynamiting the enormous Buenos Aires cantilever bridge, opened at Bilbao only a month ago after costing the city 20,000,000 pesos. To replace that will make plenty of jobs, as smart Basque proletarians well knew...
...Supported by five of Hollywood's mightiest cutups, the dainty blonde star clowns delightfully through lively, sparkling, hilarious situations which are distinguished by their brisk pace, their smart dialogue...
...sick, sore, lame and disordered and did suffer a fractured nose." Mrs. Torrence is now back with her husband, but last week she was asking $20,000 for her Yule beating from the landlords and proprietors of both the grogshop and package store. Prosecuting the case was smart, 26-year-old Lawyer Jacob Stagman, who is becoming somewhat of a specialist in Dram-Shops actions. He has had three other such cases, won $35,000 for the mother of a man who was shot dead in a saloon brawl, another $1,200 for an Armenian who got his skull cracked...
...small Reed College (Portland, Ore.) smart young President Dexter Keezer announced that he would break a 22-year Reed rule against kudos in favor of five men and women who had never received an honorary degree. Among President Keezer's discoveries were the New York Times's Labor Reporter Louis Stark (see p. 41), LL.D., Rudolph Forster, senior member of the White House secretariat, LL.D., and Willard W. Beatty, Director of Education of the Office of Indian Affairs, Ed.D...