Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invited to go along on an excursion supervised by the father of one of his chums, the father got a telephone call from Roy's mother. "You're in for a great treat," she said. "Roy's going with you. He's such a smart boy and knows so much about so many things. I'm sure you'll get a lot of pleasure out of him and probably learn a lot from...
...smart enough to get his degree at Columbia Law School at 20; his political connections got him a job as clerktypist ($1,765 a year) in the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York while he champed around waiting to turn 21 so he could be admitted to the bar. On the day he was admitted-May 27, 1948-he was sworn in as an assistant U.S. attorney ($3,397 a year), He soon became a specialist in subversive activities, performing ably and energetically as a staff lawyer on such cases as the William Remington...
...smart-money boys only snickered. When Paddy climbed into the Madison Square Garden ring with Carter last week they were betting 4 to 1 that he was still a billygoat from Brooklyn, a clumsy, light-punching brawler who had won a couple of big fights by butting, bunny-hugging and hitting on the breaks. Champion Carter, a Negro from The Bronx, was an old pro, too good, and too smart to be taken when his title was on the line...
...since 1945 there has ben a sudden shift in I.Q. In Stalag 17 we see a hint when one character warns "Remember, just because the krauts are dumb, that doesn't mean they're stupid." And in The Devil Makes Three several Germans--those helping Gene Kelly--seem almost smart...
...Ohman sons, who are sick of the whole business, would not let him see the scrapbook or the encyclopedia, but he satisfied himself that Farmer Ohman really had both of them. Then he gumshoed around the neighborhood and found that Ohman, though uneducated in a formal sense, was a smart man who often expressed an urge to fool the scholars...