Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three months later came an unexpected break. It was the Scripps boys' younger sister Ellen, smart, temperamental, strong-minded, twice-married Mrs. Ellen Browning Scripps Balentine Davis. From San Diego, hot-eyed over the cold state of family finances, Sister Ellen went storming to Seattle. From then on things happened fast. Office expenses were slashed...
...although Roy Howard began to recant last week -see p. 59); by the nation's largest single newspapers (New York Dally News, Chicago Tribune); by huge, well-heeled lobbies (America First Committee, scores of others). Their Senate numbers grew slightly, and their leaders were daisy-fresh and whip-smart. Lanky, dimpling Mr. Wheeler daily needled his foes so expertly that they forgot their vows of silence in roars of rage, whereat Mr. Wheeler cut them down as efficiently as a Greek sniper...
...cunning and indefatigable conspirator against the rights and independence of the individual American," said her ultimate goal was "some scheme containing the most binding elements of Communism and Hitlerism"; denounced her "innocent, wholehearted, humane enthusiasm" as "only a disguise." To Mrs. Roosevelt's defense leaped the smart-chart New Yorker, which has social sensibilities if not a social sense. After a mixed tribute to the Pegler prose ("a nice combination of ginmill epithet and impeccable syntax"), The New Yorker deplored "discussing the First Lady as if she were a crooked wrestling promoter...
...ring. When they said history is made at night this is what they were talking about. Mary, the petite and pretty Irish girl who dispenses the drinks up there, can hold her own with any of the so-called wits who hang around the club. They don't come smart enough to phase her. For those who like to dance there is nickelodeon with one of those newfangled telephone attachments. The dancing space is not very large, but it serves its purpose. Every once in a while a good boogie-woogie player drops in out of the cold and throws...
...that time, undergraduate sleuths were in full cry. Lowell House's student chairman, blond, smart Senior Joseph P. Lyford, issued a list of five suspects. The Harvard Crimson put its heelers to work hunting clues. Few days later the 5,500 volumes in Winthrop House's library, a basement stronghold, were found reversed...