Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undetected among the Gileadites, the latter asked all comers to pronounce the word "shibboleth" (ear of corn). Those who called it "shibboleth" were Ephraimites, got killed. Last week many a shibboleth was voiced on a new Mutual network program called Where Are You From? Dr. Henry Lee Smith Jr., smart, wispy-mustached, 26-year-old Columbia University lecturer in English, cocked an expert ear when members of a WOR studio audience read improbable statements like the following...
...smart Joe Jacobs got Battling Siki, a coal-black African, to defend his world's light-heavyweight championship against his own boy, Mike McTigue. as Irish as the Blarney stone-not in New York, but in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. In 1928. still smarter, he snitched Max Schmeling from the German manager who had brought him to the U. S., publicized him as the "German Dempsey," and, by storming into the ring and yelling "Foul" when Jack Sharkey hit Schmeling a questionably low blow, is generally credited with winning the world's heavyweight championship...
...once Comedian Cantor is unusually restrained. As a worried bachelor professor who furtively fathers an abandoned boy baby in a girls' seminary, Cantor limits his histrionics to planting wet smacks on the patient infant, singing one lachrymose ditty, Little Curly Hair. Once tears trickle down his nose. But smart Showman Cantor lets cute Baby Quintanilla, and scads of leggy little schoolgirls, among whom are Bonita Granville and Diane Lewis (Mrs. William Powell; TIME, Jan. 15), carry the picture...
...just doesn't seem possible that a company as smart as Victor would risk millions in stock and Red Seal name for a Black Label record--unless that new medium would provide a market for itself and later developments which would make it profitable. Black Label and Red Seal don't seem compatible. Black Label can exist only at over doubled volume--which Victor can't handle with its present facilities. The film process can be adapted to handle itself and the old method--consequently where the woodpile and who's going...
Although they were hitting both Prior and Devens with fair case all afternoon, good control and smart fielding kept the veterans out of trouble. They executed three double plays, as Bilodeau at shortstop turned up with one fielding gem after another, bringing nostalgia for former days...