Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken at the Morgan Senatorial inquiry (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936) in which the financier, an Edwardian figure of immense substantiality, is shown leaning forward over his broad centre of gravity and "pointing" at his inquisitors like a smart old bird...
...sweet a game as smart Mr. Davis would have it, Sugar is international. What he may have done for Franklin Roosevelt toward saving Democracy remained in the jackpot, but last week Special Ambassador Davis dealt the cards in the game of Sugar without anyone leaving the table, showed that even in 1937 22 nations could reach an economic agreement: a production-control scheme...
...fashioned U. S. stomach into Nazi knots. Manhattanites who brush elbows every day with loud, cheap slickers like Author Weidman's hero, who tells the tale himself, may find the story much too true to be entertaining. Others will give it a good hand for a smart piece of work smartly done...
Harry Bogen, born on the East Side, and now living with his mother in The Bronx, was a smart guy and knew it better than anybody. A brief experience as a shipping clerk in the Seventh Avenue garment district gave him his big idea. With a radical acquaintance, Tootsie Maltz, as front, he engineered a shipping clerks' strike, succeeded in tying up deliveries in the garment district. At that point Bogen organized his own delivery service, soon had a near-monopoly in the garment trade. As reward for forensic services rendered he took Tootsie in as partner...
...referee's court the matter of Babushkin's cash checks soon came to light. Babushkin could give no reasonable explanation. Bogen swore his partner had been victimizing him. Babushkin went to jail. Smart Guy Bogen, totting up his assets, found he had $20,000, a car, an apartment, a snappy wardrobe, an actress. And he was still a smart...