Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday Special. In the Atlanta, Ga. Sunday Journal, a want ad wanted a strange mentality: "TYPIST-FILE CLERK, smart enough to be worth $135 a month, yet dumb enough to start for less...
...meowing cat which ends it, are a deft, valid blend of showmanship, humor and yard-wide Americanism. The wounded men in Since You Went Away really look wounded, for almost the first time in a U.S. fiction war film. There are scores of such evidences of a smart showman's eye, mind and heart. Added up, they give the picture taste, shrewdness, superiority, life. Now & then the idealization runs too far ahead of the normal reality. But by & large the blend of flesh and fantasy is pretty close to Hiltonesque life in the U.S. Home...
...insurance-claims investigator, Robinson plays his usual stock role and steals several scenes from MacMurray. Walter Noff (MacMurray) isn't as smart as his chief, however, and Robinson scraps his perfect crime to save the insurance company $100,000. But there isn't a trite "crime doesn't pay" line anywhere...
Lady from Michigan. Mrs. George M. Dewey, 66, an energetic housewife of Owosso, Mich. (pop. 17,000) did not mention 'the fact that the home-town folks used to refer to her only child, Tom, as "that smart Dewey kid." (Father George died in 1927.) Sprightly Widow
More Later. The salary cut was a smart move for most bigwigs. For example, Vice President Katz would take...