Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before he goes to a show. In the review of The Ambassador's Daughter [Sept. 17] appeared the mistake that Forsythe thought Olivia and her father (Edward Arnold) were lovers. It was Adolphe Menjou, the Senator, that Forsythe thought was the lover. Your reviewer tries to be smart and ends up being neither smart nor accurate, but silly...
...G.O.P.'s blueblooded Senator Leverett Saltonstall in 1954, despite the fact that influential Democratic Senator John Kennedy refused to take a stand against Saltonstall. This year, promised campaign support by the ever more powerful Kennedy, Furcolo is given a fighting chance to beat the Republican nominee for governor, smart, aggressive Lieut. Governor Sumner Whittier...
...heavily not merely on horses but on all sports. There would be hundreds of thousands of dollars wagered on Saturday's halfbacks, even more on the strong arms of Series pitchers. And from high rollers to "little jerks" (as the big bookmakers call hole-and-corner operators), every smart-money boy knew he would get the sharpest line from Leo Hirschfield's handicappers at Athletic Publications...
...last we're taking the smart kids," said one administrator last week, "and giving them a challenge fully worth their attention...
Rude Awakening. Whip-smart Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers' leader whose political prestige was placed on the November line by his effective convention support of a Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, launched into a 20-minute argument for an all-out Democratic endorsement. Labor, said Reuther, must protect its bargaining-table gains in the political arena. "We did not choose the battlefield," he cried. "Our enemies have gone there, and that is where labor must go to protect itself...