Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressed to a gumchewing audience which has power at the polls if not in the parlor, the News's editorials are simple, colloquial, concrete, hard-hitting. Publisher Patterson writes some himself, furnishes ideas for others to smart Reuben Maury. Sample excerpts...
What Educator Hutchins, if given a free hand, would do to schools & schoolmen appears partly from his seven-year record at Chicago, where with one stroke he scrapped most of the old departmental di visions, realigned them, cut the number of budgets from 72 to twelve, offered to put smart youngsters through their academic paces as fast as they were able to go. To all U. S. colleges, according to his book, Educator Hutchins would do a great deal more...
...Mademoiselle's, Manhattan office. Convinced of the young lady's good faith, the editors decided to take a sporting chance and see what could be done about her personal appearance in one week's time. Thus was launched a heroic course of beauty treatments and a smart circulation and merchandising stunt...
...usual, Journalist Radek was one smart jump ahead of his enemies. Just before he "disappeared" he managed to get printed in Izvestia, above his signature, a scorching editorial in which he flayed Trotsky and demanded Death for all "decaying-souled traitors." In this editorial Comrade Radek claimed that he personally sabotaged and foiled the Trotsky plots against Stalin, and this bold claim was expected last week to constitute Prisoner Radek's chief defense in court. It was typical of Soviet justice that, even after Radek's arrest had been admitted, Russian newspapers carried no details of the charges...
...running off plays, working on individual weaknesses, harassing a Bierman-invented dummy. Reversing, the normal order of training any football team was merely Coach Bierman's beginning at Minnesota. Next he revised all Minnesota's individual peculiarities. Concentrating on brains instead of power, he built teams around smart quarterbacks. He had the quarterbacks build their plays around strategies more complex than those used by any other team...