Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved the car to a parking lot, turned on the heater and extracted a promise from him not to drive until sober, Morritz Lamberty drove 150 feet to a new parking place, was arrested and fined $150, explained: "When you're drinking, you're not always as smart as you ought...
...called the justices "senile, lazy bums who should be off the bench and on pensions. Opinions like this one are the price you have to pay for democracy. Those men don't know anything more than I do. They're legal experts, but I think I'm just as smart...
Many moviegoers will not get the idea, and many who do will not think it a very good one; and for such the scenario provides a few fine bits of very smart Alec. "Remember,'' he remarks vaguely to his son as they inspect their room in a French hotel, "that's not a foot bath." Best of all is the moment when Alec, having rashly climbed a tree to retrieve a badminton bird, staggers at last out of a series of vegetable ignominies. And where is the bird? It is not hard to imagine, as dazedly...
...pick fights with those persecuted heroes of agrarian reform, the Chinese Communists. It was to the mutual disaster of both Chiang and the U.S. that in the critical years following World War II the Communist-line distortions of the second picture were smearily reflected in the smart talk of sophisticates, in the books and the book reviews on China, in college lectures and in the official papers...
...Well, they used to get free passes, but a couple of years ago they had a smart alce critic who didn't realize that this is only a try-out theatre...