Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that your writers go out of their way to describe their subjects as "potbellied," "bullnecked," "paunchy," and the like. By so doing they invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign diplomats who are schooled in politeness and courtesy. ... It was considered smart by some, after World War I, to be rude. Just when manners seemed to be improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps, and throws her clear out of the literary corral. Then your writers began spitting through their teeth to show...
General Johnson, 58, with 42 years in the Army or the Reserve, leaped into the air with an anguished cry, then bore the smart like the Old Ironpants he is. At a press conference he said that he had asked for the reappointment as "just an expression of willingness to serve," and made public his letter to the President...
...jury indicted the publisher of one of the half-dozen biggest U.S. magazine-publishing companies for rigging the market in his company's shares. The charge was conspiracy to violate the Securities & Exchange Act by artificially raising the price of the stock since May 1938. The publisher was smart David Smart of Esquire-Coronet, Inc.-indicted along with his secretary-treasurer-brother Alfred and ten others. They promptly denied any wrongdoing, but the indictment climaxed one of the most extraordinary publishing sagas of the 1930s...
...million laughs, and last week he got a lot back. While playing vaudeville in Washington, D.C. he saw his life story done in a professionally paced musicomedy, Cook Book, by The Harlequins of Washington's Catholic University. Last year Catholic University's drama department got the smart notion of biographing eminent Catholic show businessmen in musical shows, began with George M. Cohan on hand to salute his imitator...
Correspondent Young lived in Japan 13 years. He doesn't live there any more. One day in January 1940, Correspondent Young answered a smart rap on his door. Outside was a Japanese plain-clothes cop who invited him to visit police headquarters for a brief conversation. There the police took away Young's shoes. "You are not going anywhere," they said. To William T. Turner of the U.S. Embassy, who accompanied Young, they shouted: "The American Embassy people are fools. Get out of here!" But Jimmy Young did not get out for two months. Most of that time...