Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boys aren't good spellers because they aren't smart enough," volunteered twelve-year-old Contestant Nancy McDaniel last week. To prove it she pointed to her fellow finalists in the National Spelling Bee: 18 were girls, ten boys. But a few minutes later Nancy was out, for misspelling liar. About 400 words later, there were a boy and a girl left, each 13. The boy, shy and nervous, was John McKinney of Woodbine, Iowa (pop. 1,350); the girl, cool and confident, was Mary McCarthy of New York City...
...Roxas wearily ended a 45-hour trip, ducked interviewers, planted a kiss on the cheek of his Vassar-student daughter, Maria Rosario, and scooted off to bed. Next day, he began to scurry about the capital with the dynamic energy of a supersalesman. He relaxed, like a salesman, in smart Washington dining spots, with imperious gallantry kissed the hand of a singer while flashbulbs exploded with good will...
...deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince...
...Tokyo's smart Nippon Theater he was singing his latest song-a dialogue between a G.I. and a Japanese girl-when two Nisei from Allied Headquarters dropped...
...Chicago's Federal Court last week, moist-eyed Alberto Vargas asked a judge to set aside his unwitting agreement with Esquire's president, David Smart, and claimed $250,000 in damages, $200,000 of it for Esquire's use of an unsigned Varga girl. Vargas also hinted at something closely resembling mental cruelty. "Uncle Dave" Smart, he said, had urged him to live in a style that would "exude success...