Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Damned Schoolteacher." Through almost five years of Arevalo's "spiritual socialism," shrewd "Paco" Arana had patiently listened to a string of well-heeled callers telling him why he should send "that damned schoolteacher" back to Argentina (where Arevalo spent 15 years). A smart politician, Arana was friendly to all, made promises and took no action-except to put down outright revolt. He did not want to upset the government; he wanted to be elected President himself in 1950, when Arevalo's term ends...
...cheeks," for concealing weak chins, and for training, "like well-bred wall plants." Their combings made an excellent stuffing for cushions. When not being wagged, beards could be carried in a velvet bag (as was one 16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra blanket or could be screwed into a portable press for an overnight permanent. In short, as bearded Burl Ives remarks on the jacket of Beards: "Every man should...
Machines & Emancipation. In 1804, one George Smart invented a chimney-sweeping machine which made it unnecessary for human sweeps to climb the flues, but it was 1819 before a reform act passed the House of Commons. The House of Lords killed it with the admonition of one peer "to leave reforms of this kind ... to the moral feeling of perhaps the most moral people on the face of the earth...
...smart varmint, but I can't share the professor's love for him. The Western ranges have to carry several million head of cattle and sheep as well as antelope, deer and elk. We simply don't have enough grass to produce meat for America, ERP, and the coyotes that range all over the West . . . J. McK. PARDEE Secretary...
...from Harvard Law in 1921 with good grades, though he missed Law Review by a shadow. Nowadays a good friend as well as former student of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, McCloy jokes over the fact that the Justice did not remember him at Harvard: "He kept all the smart boys in the front row." McCloy headed for the big law firms of Wall Street. First with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, later with Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, he and other fledgling "clerks" read and studied morning & night, drafting contracts, charters and all the other documents of corporate and financial...