Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keynote speech for Negro Charles Howard, a Des Moines attorney, who had once been suspended by the Bar Association for misusing funds. Marcantonio himself took charge of the Rules Committee. At his left & right hand sat Hugh Bryson, leftist boss of the C.I.O. marine cooks, and John Abt, smart and sardonic New York labor lawyer, who managed to be everywhere at once throughout the convention's three days...
...usual, in such cases, the collapse was brought about mainly by a flight of capital. Smart money men established bank accounts abroad. The refugee capital is now estimated at $70 to $100 million. Unrestricted dollar purchases reached as high as $1,000,000 daily in June. When, on the three days preceding the devaluation, they reached $2,000,000 daily, the government was forced...
...clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky recitation of Paul Revere's Ride. Millard Mitchell handles the smart cracks ably, but since the brightest and nastiest of them are delivered against the terrible backdrop of Germany's annihilated capital, their echoes go a little sour...
Temper & Trash. The man who wrote the copy and stirred up the teapot tempest is smart, free-speaking Elliott White Springs, 51, president of South Carolina's Springs Mills (and of seven other textile companies, three banks and a railroad), and an old hand at stirring up excitement...
...father's death, and his own inheritance, gave Hughes freedom. He did not know exactly what talents he had, but he knew he was smart. He had outgrown childish toys; he was ready for grown-up toys. He had (or soon would have) the money to buy them; he had the brains to use them. He would have fun. But grown-up fun, he quickly found, sometimes involves frustration...