Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Town. In Kenanpo the news men met aged, wily Yen Hsi-shan, an old-style but relatively progressive warlord. Once he was an enemy of Chiang Kaishek, is now his honored representative. The slippered old man, in a private's uniform, told them of his program to out smart the Communists by improving administration, lifting the lot of the peasant. But Yen's main job was to watch the Japanese, 20 miles to the east. The news men watched coolies singsong a dismantled truck up the cliff, for use on the highway leading to the static front. They...
...Minister, Secretary for India, Foreign Secretary, Lord Privy Seal, should have been, installed at last in Madrid as the spokesman of the democracies. . . . No need to wish to harm him. He is what Britain made him. His proper job now is to be a gossip correspondent for a smart newspaper...
Thoroughbred Pensive, by English-bred Hyperion out of Penicuik II (pronounced pennyquick), is far from infallibly great, but with Jones' conditioning he is head and withers in front of his closest challenger. With Conn McCreary up, they make the best combination of honest runner and smart rider in the game. Barring accidents, Pensive will probably beat the great Whirly's money mark by the time he is turned out to stud...
...splendid city of Buenos Aires was thriving, cocky, getting richer by the minute. Busy factories billowed thick, black smoke. The Calle Florida, flashier than ever, glittered with the smart new shops of refugees. Pin-striped upper-crusters gathered at 8 p.m. in the Plaza Bar, sipped the abundant Scotch, ribbed the preposterous military Government and told with detailed animation whom they slept with the night before...
Editor La Cossitt plans no changes in the tone of Collier's (wartime circulation ceiling: 2,860,000). His immediate task is smart coverage of invaded Europe. He has some star reporters for this crucial job: William B. Courtney and Martha Gellhorn are already in England. Soon to join them is Reporter Gellhorn's husband, who has succeeded in making literature out of war reporting, burly, newly-bearded Ernest Hemingway...