Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign is that Kansas City Star team, Roy Roberts and Lacy Haynes, who put the Kansas Governor into the running originally and now pack the greatest influence with him. Theirs will be whatever fame or blame accrues to the G. O. P.'s strategy on Nov. 3. Yet smart newshawks who compared the tone of Nominee Landon's acceptance speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee...
...Startling innovations by Edward VIII last week were appointment to the Royal Household of an osteopath and an aviator. Officially styled "Manipulative Surgeon to His Majesty," muscular and dynamic Sir Morton Smart has been for 16 years his royal master's chief rubdown man, recently boasted to a Parliamentary commission that nine jockeys who rode in the last Grand National Steeplechase are his patients, including the winner. Cracked Orthopedic Surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart of the British Medical Association last week: "Osteopathy is brute force-an ignorant American stunt...
Interpreted as everything from a courageous demonstration of political independence to a smart New Deal bid for business votes, Chairman Eccles' decision was generally approved by bankers big & little. Excess reserves are pretty evenly distributed, but a few banks will feel the pressure of the Eccles brake and have to borrow to build up reserves to the new requirements. These bankers will undoubtedly howl "Deflation...
...become bestsellers. That books-about-scientists might also have a popular appeal was proved by Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. Last week Author-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie took a leaf from de Kruif's notebook, published a book on the Great Naturalists, from Aristotle to Fabre. Smart Publisher Schuster wrote the incoherently enthusiastic blurb himself, said he meant every word of it. Excerpt: "The sound of wings is in this book, the murmur of the forest, eons of time, undreamed by Moses, the wilderness itself, and continents arising from the sea. Here too are enchanted isles, luxuriant...
...bathe, causes a skin irritation which is almost impossible to cure unless the physiotherapist keeps, out of the water entirely. If the patient exercises alone in a small raised pool, the attendant must stoop over to give treatments and this often develops backaches. To avoid backaches and skin troubles, smart hydrotherapists wear cotton athletic suits inside light-weight waterproof waders which cover them from soles to armpits...