Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...village poet, receives his good news without removing from his lips the tuba which he plays in stress or inspiration. This is a characteristic reaction. It provides the key to his later behavior when, installed in his uncle's Manhattan mansion and bored by the task of humbling smart alecks who mistake his lack of polish for absence of wit, he finds recreation in feeding doughnuts to cab horses, chasing fire engines and sliding down the marble banisters...
...smart Army doctor who last year made news by describing the symptoms he experienced while parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis...
...some reason, the Old World has so far been kinder than the New to the cultists of the Oxford Group. On the heels of the Ollerup meeting, a European author with a respectable following will publish next week the Group's first big literary apologia. Having tried smart fiction (Evensong), pacifism (Cry Havoc!) and horticulture (Down The Garden Path), elegant British Author Beverley Nichols has turned to the Oxford Group. "All I want," says he in his forthcoming The Fool Hath Said,* "is to get as many people as possible to share with me the excitement of living Christianity...
...Paul Cuttoli, smart, svelte, energetic wife of France's Senator from Constantine, Algeria, began mixing art and philanthropy years ago when she imported wool from India, set her husband's impoverished constituents to weaving rugs. Few years after the War she grew interested in the plight of France's tapestry weavers. Flourishing when kings and noblemen wanted something ornamental to keep out the draughts which seeped through castle walls, their craft was dying in an age of steam heat and small apartments. What tapestry weaving needed, decided Mme Cuttoli, was a stiff shot...
...born in Wales 53 years ago. For 24 years he was with Bethlehem Steel, rising to executive vice president. Then, reputedly because Bethlehem was not big enough for both Eugene Grace and himself, he went to Jeffrey Manufacturing Co., big Columbus, Ohio machinery maker. Harddriving, dynamic, he is a smart salesman as well as an able operating executive...