Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sponsors of this tax law may have thought that it was a smart way to appear to 'soak the rich.' Actually it has no relation to 'soaking the rich.' What it does is protect the big fellow who still has a reserve, and tie a millstone around the neck of the little fellow...
...Huey Long," says Gene Talmadge in his vaudeville-hill billy drawl, "was a mighty smart man. He and I were mighty good friends." That Georgia Governor and Louisiana Senator had made a deal "to stop Roosevelt" before Long's death, Talmadge admits. The extent and degree to which Gene Talmadge possesses Huey Long's talents is a subject for observers to debate and time to determine. But certain it is that the Governor of Georgia hates the New Deal as bitterly as the one-time Governor of Louisiana ever...
...contemporary wisdom. Sometimes he merely lists ordinary, everyday greetings to suggest the breezy friendliness of his hero: Where you been so long? What good wind blew you in? These themes are interspaced with examples of native folklore that range from Ford jokes to the classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections of The People, Yes deal with the poetry and sardonic humor of the people: The old-timer on the desert was gray and grizzled with ever seeing...
...Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal appearance in Brussels, tested by Twentieth Century-Fox, signed by Zanuck. Smart, she learned English by reading fairy stories, listening to the radio, memorizing 25 words a day. Shy, she refuses to eat in the elaborate Cafe de Paris, official studio restaurant, dines in a counter lunch with the labor gangs. Says she: "I lived for years in Madagascar among temperamental people...
...Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar was rivaled only by that at a tearoom just opened by Count Ludwig Salm, and thousands of Auslander from everywhere were strolling Salzburg streets in Dirndln (peasant waist, skirt & apron) or Lederhosen (leather shorts with gay suspenders) from Joseph Lanz's smart shop...