Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first I was inclined to pass this statement off and attribute it to the writings of some "smart aleck"; however, so many people have brought it to my attention that certainly it must have conveyed an erroneous impression to them, and the mere fact that it is printed under the guise of a "political fantasy" in no way mitigates of the seriousness of the charge...
Senator Walsh could expostulate that he was concerned with none of this, but nonetheless, as a Democrat, all of it whirled about his head. All over his state, billboards shouted the smart G.O.P. slogan -"Had Enough? Vote Republican Nov. 5." For Dave Walsh that was a particularly ominous sign. This was a bad year for oldtimers in the Senate, e.g., Burt Wheeler, Henrik Shipstead, Bob La Follette...
...Louis Budenz put the spotlight on the real Brain of U.S. Communism? Those who know Communists best thought that if Gerhart Eisler was not the top man he was surely one of the top man's top men. They also thought it was smart to keep him in the U.S.-a well-trained German Communist could be much more troublesome to the U.S. in Germany than he could, under the spotlight, in the U.S. itself...
...Miriam Hopkins, and Grace Moore moved something called the Hollywood Bachelors' Club to the week's unlikeliest outburst of self-expression. These three ladies, said the fellows, were their very favorite "cats." Then the bachelors explained: "Kittenish dames give us the wim-wams. But it takes a smart woman to be downright catty...
...Mary's smart Coach Jimmy Phelan explained it: "He's a cross between Pavlova and Sonja Henie . . . and he has that Hawaiian rhythm." (Wedemeyer is half German, half Hawaiian.) In the fourth quarter, when a Fordham quick kick sailed over his head, Wedemeyer chased it back to his 30-yard line, then, as tacklers converged on him, kicked the ball right back. It rolled dead on Fordham's five. So flustered was Fordham that its quarterback called for a forward pass on the next play, pitched it smack into the arms of a St. Mary...