Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody, least of all smart Franz von Papen, expected Britain to listen to Hitler's peace bid. Winston Churchill had already said flatly that Britain would never treat with a Nazi (TIME, Nov. 17). Ambassador von Papen's interview was given to the correspondent of a Barcelona newspaper and was directed at Spain and Turkey. Germany, he said, regarded Turkey as a "bastion of peace" at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, as Spain was in the west. This week Berne reported German troop movements as far south as northern Spain...
Before he was fairly settled in Santiago's grey Casa Moneda, Chile's new Acting President Geronimo Mendez had ?n important visitor. Out of a borrowed Lufthansa plane at Santiago airport one day last week stepped Brazil's smart, dapper Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, all primed to talk commercial treaties. He had left Rio expecting to confer with President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, had learned of Don Tinto's temporary retirement (TIME, Nov. 17) while en route...
...Smart Dames & Smooth Gents...
Here in the Carolinas we are having, this week of crisis, a convention of tourist agents. Two hundred of them from all parts of the country loll on terraces of inns and country clubs, sipping mint juleps which obsequious landlords provide. Smart dames and smooth gents talk languidly in low tones, with those little glances of confidence, eloquent of the present moment only...
WQXR's success has been due not only to smart Technician Hogan, but to its equally smart general manager-Elliott Sanger. The station started out with a collection of four or five records, which were played over & over again. Today it has a collection of 10,000 and an orchestra of its own. Its programs attract about 6,000 letters a week...