Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium's Catholic-Irascist Party, decided last week that he wants to be a member of Belgium's Parliament. He ordered one of the 21 Rexists in the Chamber of Deputies to resign, forced the Government to announce a by-election, nominated himself a candidate. From smart young Liberal Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland came a gallant countermove. He decided to resign his own seat, declared that he himself would oppose Rexist Degrelle "as a non-partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold III who fixed April 11 for the contest...
...trim and whip-smart a little Japanese diplomat as the Empire could wish is Mr. Naotake Sato. In Tokyo his official rating was Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet...
...Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (by Barre Lyndon; Gilbert Miller, producer) is that highly desirable addition to any theatre season, a smart, smooth, crook play. The fact that the crooks involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million...
Potency of the Lindbergh Law depends on Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, interpretations of which have been so notoriously contradictory. Currently in the Illinois Law Review a smart young Louisiana State University law professor named Thomas A. Cowan licks his legal chops in a fancifully-written article which shows just how loose has been the courts' usage of this Constututional phrase, "commerce . . . among the several States." Crux of Lawyer Cowan's thesis is that the U. S. Supreme Court has been willing to expand the meaning of "interstate commerce" when a law involves "morals...
...been duplicated in California where almost every foot of available landscape is already familiar to cinemaddicts. Second most interesting fact is that all this apparently expensive panoramic authenticity cost RKO practically nothing. Michael Strogoff was originally made in both French and German by Producer Joseph Ermolieff. RKO's smart Producer Pandro Saul Berman (Winterset, Swing Time} bought the U. S. rights to the picture for $75,000, but instead of showing it with subtitles or dubbed-in sound, he proceeded to remake it in Hollywood. Directed by George Nicholls Jr., and supervised by Ermolieff, the parts made...