Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk, bewigged and begowned Sir Gilbert Campion, rose and pointed silently at National Liberal George Lambert, M.P. since 1891. Lambert then proposed Colonel the Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, an Old Etonian, veteran of the First Dragoon Guards and the Northumberland Hussar Yeomanry, and Deputy Speaker since 1938. Smart aleck Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, a maverick Conservative who is regarded as a noisy nuisance by his own party, maladroitly interrupted the proceedings: he said that he did not object to Brown personally, but did object to his being thrust on the House by the Conservatives. Loud cries of "Rubbish...
...William Huntley of Western Reserve, a child psychologist, decided that college was the place for the boy. On I.Q. tests Kennie scores about 182, which means that his "mental age" is about 20. When he entered college last autumn, his fellow students regarded him as a repulsive little smart aleck. Since then he has become less offensive to them. He is still enough of a small boy to raid the sugar jar in the chemistry laboratory. But when he was questioned about his chemistry, Kennie answered, "We're running the oxidation sequence on methanes. Little work with the aldehydes...
...boom in bad bargains. Such buying troubles brokers: it takes little account of intrinsic values. Further, the dogs-once they get out of line-almost invariably fall faster than they rise. As market fluctuations go, cash-&-carry buying itself is safer than margin buying by unsophisticated bargain hunters-though smart-money margin buyers often tend to stabilize the market. But traditionally the cash buyer is the same little fellow who would rather have 100 bad shares at 2 than four good ones at 50. And brokers have an old maxim: the time to sell is when the elevator man starts...
Goebbels' ascendancy did not astonish those who know him and Germany. He has been portrayed to the world as a jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
...stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year 70 A.D. . . . A man of speculative mind, he tried to figure out how long it would take a smart battery of artillery posted on the Mount of Olives to knock the whole bloody settlement to pieces, and his guess was that it could be bloody well done in half an hour. He was, he said, bloody hot for trying it and he hoped that it would be done...