Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interview them, and send to the colleges for references, investigating them thoroughly before they are accepted." "I've always heard that they are pretty smart," said the Grouser, conceding that point. But he straightened himself, making ready for the master stroke. "how can they know anything about business?" He settled back triumphantly, content to let Miss Larsen wiggle out of that one as best she could...
...collectors are men and most likely in uniform now, that jazz never sold very well anyhow, and that a collector of Jazz, unlike a Lombardo-lover or Kaye-swayer, never tires of his records, it would seem downright unpatriotic to carp at the present output. Victor's latest "Smart Set" albums, however, like "Favorite Love Songs," and Songs of Imperishable Beauty," seem hardly likely to leave any of the better. Columbia reissues behind in a could of shellac. Or take the case of Half McIntyre's new band, which the gentlemen in Camden are plugging vigorously. Practically every Victor refuse...
...bank was cracked by "four wild kids, anywhere from eighteen to twenty, scared so bad the slobber is running out of their mouths, couple of them coked to the ears, their suspenders stretched double from the gats they got in their pants." He passed on the dope to the smart miss who was vote-getting for Sol's political opponents. Ben fed her tips all through the elections; got Sol run out of town...
Whether or not the nation has manhandled its manpower, it is doing a smart job of mobilizing its boy-& -girl power. Last week Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt sent a directive clear-as-a-school-bell to the nation's 28,000 high schools: No boy or girl was left in doubt about his or her place in the war effort. The directive launched a High School Victory Corps, complete with uniform (a service cap) and specific military assignments. National chief of the Corps is popular Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. ace in the last war (26 planes) and head of Eastern...
...elbows in hospital work was Louise Macy Hopkins, Harry's smart and pretty bride, who took an evening out to recruit nurses' aids for the Red Cross with Recruit Joan Fontaine. Columned Eleanor Roosevelt enthusiastically: "[She] is such an ardent nurse's aid worker . . . that she has more than 300 hours to her credit already and can do certain types of work which newcomers are not permitted to undertake." At Columbia Hospital in Washington, Nurse's Aid Louise Hopkins, from 9 to 4: makes beds, takes temperatures, feeds helpless patients, carries bedpans, fills water bottles...