Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howlin' Mad worked his men from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. No hands were excused from work. They cleared 500 acres, cleaned out underbrush at the rate of an acre every 20 minutes. When building began, smart Marine sergeants discovered a construction genius in the uniform of a private, first-class. He was put in charge, bossed sergeants along with the rest. Said Howlin' Mad of this uncanonical procedure: "He just had a hell of a knack for building things." Prize building achievement was a mess hall. The first concrete was poured...
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox last week showed that the Administration has more than one way to skin a cat. On the ultra-public arrival of the crippled British battleship Malaya in New York harbor (TIME, April 14), he delivered merely a smart left-hand rebuke to newspapers which published the fact-without hint of reprisal. But last week, at his instigation, the Civil Aeronautics Board went after the license of the commercial pilot who flew a New York Daily News photographer out to snap the Malaya. Charge: flying too low over city and harbor...
Thus last week, in the overcrowded obituary column of the Times, smart Londoners read with regret of the end of "Little Fortune," the genial and popular headwaiter who for years had greeted them at banquets at the Savoy. A short, bald, smiling man, he looked not unlike Benito Mussolini. But Headwaiter Picchi's hatred for Mussolini cost him his life...
...artists who put on this show, and who work in every medium from paint and cardboard to shoes and underwear, are paid as high as $10,000 a year. Their technique, which keeps abreast of every newfangled idea, has become so tricky that window shoppers have to be smart to tell the merchandise from the scenery...
...means unburdens itself of the faults of the very set it purports to satirize. Clever in a superficial way, often self-consciously affected, it loses its bite by forgeting irony in adulation. The skill of the author is perfectly fitted for conveying the elaborate decadence of the international smart set and largely vitiates the annoying characteristics of the subject...