Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commemorating the Sesquicentennial, "The Green Adventure," a pageant written for the anniversary by Charles Allen Smart, will be presented several times this year. Students will handle all the acting, backstage duties and technical parts to the production...
Last week it looked as if McCord's campaign was getting somewhere. New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby had "dorsed" the trend, proclaimed himself a member of the "Society for the Restoration of Lost Positives." Later, a smart copywriter for Gimbels picked up the idea, blazoned an eight-column ad for fall college fashions: "couth, kempt, sheveled . . . that's how college girls will look this fall...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, Nebraska's smooth, smart Frederick Andrew Seaton, 43, a practiced political hand who was Alf Landon's secretary during the 1936 presidential campaign, Harold Stassen's preconvention manager in 1948, and one of the top men in the Eisenhower movement last year. Newspaper Publisher Seaton (the Hastings, Neb. Tribune, and other Midwest papers) was a member of the Nebraska Legislature in 1945-47, served for a year as U.S. Senator, filling the vacancy created by the death of Kenneth S. Wherry. His new assignment: to improve relations between Engine Charlie...
...18th hour, "my back is stiff; my shoulders ache; my face burns; my eyes smart ... All I want in life is to throw myself down flat, stretch out . . ." He pushes his eyes open with his thumbs. Daylight comes, but in the 24th hour, Lindbergh has to strike his face and arms viciously and stamp his feet to keep awake. Over and over again he does his navigation chores: ". . . And 12 make 23. Twenty-three-what do I want with 23?" But even in a semi-stupor, he does his chores right. In the 27th hour, he joyously sights some fishing...
Rich Americans used to be among the best customers for Europe's antiques. They bought the Old World's treasures to furnish mansions on the Hudson or castles in California, and a smart dealer could turn an easy 100% profit by buying at bargain prices in Europe, selling for what the traffic would bear in the U.S. But in recent years, the antique tables have been turned. Fine antiques generally are now more expensive in Europe than in the U.S., and some old pieces are being bought cheaply in New York for shipment back to Europe. Items...