Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nellie's smart Irish lass...
Said he: ". . . The really smart trick we pulled was that after Lindbergh made his speech we put his mother-in-law [Mrs. Dwight Morrow] on the air-and was that a face card? It was! She said, 'Telegraph the White House and your Congressmen.' . . . 15,000 telegrams came tumbling down on Washington, saying 'Give the destroyers to Great Britain.' They never knew what hit them...
This seemed to reduce the efforts of the White Committee to mere high-pressure propaganda. Lectured the New York Times next day: "Mr. White's remarks in this instance are unfortunate. ... A committee similar to Mr. White's could have pulled any number of smart tricks to get us to send the fifty destroyers to Germany or Italy, and their efforts would have been worse than vain." After the last war, the Times pointed out, a myth grew up that the U. S. went to war, not out of "the clear-sighted recognition of the need of defeating...
...Smart little Harry Ferguson, builder and distributor of the Ford lightweight tractor (TIME, July 3, 1939), likes to think of his machines in terms of social progress. Last summer he visited England and his native Ireland. This week Inventor Ferguson put forth a new idea to help win the war for Britain...
King George II, in smart khaki field uniform, appeared on the balcony of the Army General Headquarters and waved to the througs as a band paraded in the streets ahead of flag waving Greeks...