Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last June Germany's round-faced and cheerful Ambassador-at-Large Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, onetime salesman of "German Champagne," blandly appeared in London and showed around the smart salons of Mayfair what he said was a list of British subjects any one of whom Adolf Hitler would prefer to the present British Ambassador at Berlin, Sir Eric Phipps. Herr von Ribbentrop did not deny that he himself was the Realm-leader's choice to succeed as German Ambassador to the Court of St. James the distinguished, old-school Dr. Leopold von Hoesch who died in April...
They are organized into the Minnesota Editorial Association, generally considered to be the strongest of the State newspaper associations. . . . Minnesota editors are smart enough to forget political differences and unite themselves into this co-operative body for the benefit of the newspaper business. The association for years has had a full-time paid secretary and field manager, maintains an office in Minneapolis, furnishes members engravings at cost, farms out jobs that members cannot handle in their own plants, last year purchased some $16,000 worth of merchandise for them, solicited and distributed $14,000 worth of advertising for them, furnished...
...late great Editor Edward Bok, grandson of the late great Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis. Three years ago this heir apparent to the soundly pro-GOP Saturday Evening Post shocked his conservative fellow citizens by stumping for the New Deal. Last week they received another jolt when smart, pretty Nellie Lee Holt Bok, onetime religious education director at Missouri's Stephens College for Women, followed her husband into Democratic ranks...
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...Chicago, Tommy Cushman, 4, marched into a tavern, declared he was lost, had the bartender notify the police, waited until Policeman Thomas Mahoney drove by and took him home in the patrol wagon. Chuckled Policeman Mahoney: "He's a smart boy. Tommy's been after me for a week for a ride in the wagon, but I couldn't do it on account of regulations...