Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynolds smoke any brand but Camels. Senator Reynolds admitted that he smoked Camels but he assured questioners that he did smoke and enjoy Lucky Strikes on occasion. No other Lucky Strike-endorsing Senator would speak up but that there were more was clearly indicated one night last week when smart, socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth commercialized herself in Washington over a nation-wide Lucky Strike radio hookup. Mrs. Longworth set a new high of some kind when she described the superior clarity with which the voices of Lucky Strike-smoking Senators could be heard in the Senate gallery...
...British Foreign Office.* Last week Sir Robert's brother-in-law, vigorous British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps, was appointed Ambassador to France, and heaved by the Nazis were sighs of relief. After Dictator Hitler took power, two diplomats Der Führer found too hard and smart for his Nazis were the then U. S. Charge d'Affaires George Anderson Gordon, now U. S. Minister to Haiti, and Sir Eric Phipps...
...hobnailed dictator but a silky Jewish intellectual of the Leon Trotsky type is Socialist French Premier Léon Blum. Smart Paris wiseacres guessed last week that Blum's shock at the killing of Nava, chine caused him to remonstrate by telegraph with Joseph Stalin, perhaps accounted for the unexpected action...
...smart, got ahead fast, was soon doing a brokerage business on the side. When he met Mette Gad, a Danish girl on a visit to Paris, her strapping body, naturalness and intelligence appealed to him. They married, settled down to raise a family. Paul was making good money, Mette was social and a good spender. Shortly before the birth of their first child, Paul took up drawing as a hobby. Gradually he became more & more interested in it, took to painting. But Mette never suspected how serious he was, even when he sent a picture to the Salon...
...which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which mirrors the nation's growth, was a smart special assistant named Carl McFarland. Attesting the thoroughness of Justice Department researchers are 1,529 references in the 558 pages...