Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean Watson will offer to find gold with his IBM machines. "Damn, but those machines are awfully smart. Awfully" he will...
...Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed by Toronto Mining Broker Albert N. Richmond...
What these people chiefly disliked about Roosevelt is that he did want to change things, and many of them found reason to scorn him. "His smart friends tended to regard him as overmuch of an intellectual," according to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "and the girls of his own set called him 'the featherduster' because of supposedly shallow and priggish qualities...
Owen Wister recalls, however, that a song written for the 1879 Dickey show referred to Roosevelt as "awful smart, with waxed mustache and hair in curls." Indeed, the Roosevelt of his college days looked nothing like the portly president of the 1900's. He was thin-faced and anemic, and had not yet developed the much-caricatured prominent teeth and jaw of his later years. He also wore reddish whiskers, carefully nurtured, which caused amusement in the Yard...
THREE or four years ago. the arrival of Richard Nixon in the White House would have seemed a dreadful prospect. He seemed an unprincipled smart aleck. a witch-hunting demagogue, and so ambitious that no price seemed too high for a chance at the presidency...