Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cops and jailers, by & large, have a rooted belief in the therapeutic value of a punch to the jaw or belly. Drunks, for instance, have a way of becoming much less troublesome if they are slapped around a little. Desk sergeants are always having trouble with smart guys who want to argue; jerking them across the desk and belting them across the jowls usually makes them good as gold. Then there are characters who don't want to talk at all-until they have ricocheted off the walls a few times...
Will keep us smart without a stay...
...Merced, San Juan, Portales or San Lucas. In the days before inflation, she wandered happily up & down the aisles, stopping to buy 1.50 pesos of meat, 16 centavos of rice, 5 centavos of garlic, 40 centavos of tomatoes. There was a lot of good-natured bargaining, and a smart haggler could stretch el gasto to include a movie...
Happy Days. World War II gave henequeneros a new chance. The U.S., through crop purchases, pumped over $50 million into the area. A smart Syrian merchant named Cabalan Macari set up twine and rope factories and made a killing. The old families woke up to the fact that they still had their machinery, and could charge as much for disfibering agave spikes as they could get. By war's end, the number of factories had grown from 11 to 100. In the mansions on the Paseo de Montejo it was like old times...
Former foot soldiers, who regarded even a regimental headquarters as a soft spot, may also find it hard to understand Allen when he writes: "Tailors and bootmakers in neighboring towns were deluged with rush orders for smart battle jackets and combat boots . . . high-geared action, hard-hitting competence, and breezy cockiness became HQ Third Army's fixed character and tempo. It moved, talked, and fought, fast, tough, and hard...