Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of Chinese sat down with four smart Westerners: Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China); his wife Nym Wales (Inside Red China); John Alexander, secretary to British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr; and Shanghai Municipal Council's factory inspector, Rewi Alley. Their conclusion: China's only military skill was in small, mobile, spontaneous units; why not build China's economy in similar units-develop a guerrilla industry? John Alexander broached the idea to his boss. Sir Archibald was enthusiastic, at once took the plan to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Finance Minister...
...Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes had overshadowed all the world's lotteries. Thanks to its smart publicity men, Jack O'Sheehan and Jim O'Farrell, it brought more fame to Ireland than Guinness' Stout. The Sweeps' huge Drum (ticket-mixing machine) standing in Dublin's Plaza Hall became Eire's No. 1 sightseeing attraction for tourists. The Draw, held thrice a year (on the Grand National, Derby and Cesarewitch)-with Eire's prettiest nurses picking tickets out of the Drum's 24 portholes-was a national shindig. Irish hospitals were run as though...
Gloria is a student at Erasmus High in Brooklyn, and has a liberal-minded family, which believes that the so-called "facts of life" should be taught children at an early age, but taught in the right way. "Mr. Russell is undoubtedly a very smart man," she admitted in a recent News interview. "And it is for this reason he would be dangerous in cleverly misleading weak-minded boys and girls with his ideas of trial marriages and other things which would bring down our present high standard of morals. I wouldn't want to be taught...
Just where did the so smart writer get the information that osteopaths are not doctors? As a former member of the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, I seem to remember that quite a number of osteopaths took exactly the same examinations in medicine and surgery, and were granted the same sort of licenses to practice surgery as the allopaths. My understanding is that a similar law operates in California...
...CORPSE STEPS OUT-Craig Rice - Simon and Schuster ($2). Nelle Brown, glamorous radio singer, gets into three fast murders-and out again all right because her lawyer, lover and press agent are smart fellows. Hard-drinking, tight-living, hilarious stuff...