Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They're our representatives; we elected them. We know they're not angels or geniuses, but we'd feel kind of funny if they were-like impostors. Maybe they're not as smart as their detractors, or as good, or as nearly right. But those same detractors have some awfully queer ideas, and the Congressmen have our ideas. As long as our representatives have a little power, we count on them to save us from, those queer ideas...
Alex's mistake, his caustic father-in-law (finely played by Dudley Digges) tells him, lay in his subscribing to the notion "that bad men are stupid and good men are smart." But the scornful old liberal, who knew better, himself behaved worse. He cynically abandoned his fighting newspaper, sat snorting in the shade...
...five Seniors who were elected were: Edward B. Burke '45, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Lowell House; Willard T. Grubb, Jr. '45, of Springfield Illinois and Dunster House; James Heilbrun '45, V-12, of New York City; Kalman Novak '45, of Cambridge and Lowell House; and Louis E. Smart, Jr. '45, NROTC, of Columbus, Ohio...
...commission, appointed by Governor Dewey after the Creedmoor scandal last May (TIME, June 7), has been investigating New York State's mental hospitals. Head of the commission is smart Lawyer Archie 0. Dawson. Findings...
...Luckman's resolute promotion of Hope himself, as distinguished from Pepsodent, belies his gags about his good friend. Last year Pepsodent paid $225,000 to finance Hope's supersuccessful Army camp tours (TIME, Sept. 20), a new high. (Jack Benny-also a smart man with a dollar-recently decided to leave Grape-Nuts for Pall Mall cigarets, where he too will get a budget for personal promotion.) The fact seems to be that a team like Luckman and Hope pays off both partners...