Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after day from dawn to dusk the procession wound through the mountains. A day's march ahead were the old, the women and the smart young Querétaro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro...
...rainbow trout in Idaho's famed Silver Creek* are big, tough and smart. On still days, under bright sunlight, nothing can lure them up. It is best to wait until a cloud blots out the sun and a breeze ruffles the mirror-like surface. Then the trick is to hang on to the savage rainbows once you've hooked them...
...first published in Horizon. Editor Cyril Connolly devoted the entire February issue of the highbrow British literary monthly to Waugh's short novel. This smart devotion paid off. Horizon for February was sold out in a week...
...Smart old Grassi Diaz knew what he was doing. After María Helena's debut (once again she sang with Gigli), Buenos Aires newspapers broke out in a rash of praise. Said La Prensa: "A great success . . . She has a pure, generous, fresh and moving voice . . . [She] has shown rare qualities which promise a brilliant career...
...many of his underlings, fed up with his imperious one-man rule, did. As such smart merchandisers as Walter Hoving (see below) and the Ford Motor Co.'s Albert Browning left, they jokingly formed the "Has-Been Club." In due time they took in 21 Ward has-been presidents and top executives. Not till Vice President Wilbur Harrington Norton, 44, became president in 1946 did Chairman Avery have someone who was ready to dish out rough treatment as well as take...