Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the Japanese returned to the market, ordered 300,000 tons from U. S. scrap brokers for delivery this summer. Again their timing was smart. From last fall's high of $26, the scrap price had fallen to around $18.50-$19.50. Biggest steady factor in the market has been Britain, which is now paying $18.50 a ton (subject to monthly adjustment when the market moves). But brokers were hungry for big orders. When the Japanese dangled 300,000 tons under their noses, the price went down...
...ambition which comes upon many a citizen, especially when he is in his cups, is to lead a band. Most professional band leaders do not encourage these amateur impulses. But last week Leader Sammy Kaye, a smart, sandy, jug-eared young man whose slogan is "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye," turned this yen to good account. When he was winding up a recent engagement at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, Sammy Kaye had let the enthusiastic drunks go through the motions of leading his orchestra, awarded champagne to the best and funniest. Last week, on a tour of movie...
What are the relations between body structure and glands? Between body structure and temperament, insanity, criminal tendencies, immunity and susceptibility to disease, nutritional requirements, sex needs, rate of maturing, length of life? Few years ago a smart, quiet, pleasant young man named William Herbert Sheldon began to think hard about these clouded questions...
First is the general usage of such terms as Trojan horse, subversive agents, fifth columnists, etc. It occurs to me that none of these carries the full stigma of the old terms spies and traitors. The full impact of feeling of contempt is lost. One might even consider himself smart in being a fifth columnist, but never in being a traitor...
...clarion that the Party must take Willkie or take a beating. All this was very well for ex-Democrat Willkie; what bred-in-the-bone Republicans wanted was some assurance that he at last was of the true faith. They got their assurance, Wendell Willkie got his accolade from smart, dynamic Helen Reid, whose New York Herald Tribune is a Republican bible. On the convention's fourth day, the Herald Tribune front-paged: "... A man of the people, a Democrat for many years, a Republican by choice, he seems to us to be heaven's gift. . . ." The Philadelphia...