Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that close-up point of vantage, Biographer Manchester tries manfully to understand the contradictions that few understood when the beer-guzzling bad boy from Baltimore was an editor of the Smart Set and the American Mercury. Mencken wrote like a reckless revolutionary, but he was Tory to the core. His home life was as innocent as the average minister's, but he flayed the ministers, and the Bohemians claimed him as their own. In the 1920s, a word of praise from Mencken became a priceless treasure. When, as a joke, he suggested various politicians for the presidency, minor...
...personal representative, twist arms and bang more heads together than could any one of the compartmentalized czars of World War II days. Tall, handsome Stu Symington has a highly developed knack for getting along with people. Friend & foe agree that the phrase that best fits him is "smart operator." He is impetuous, forceful, dedicated; a doer rather than a thinker; a man adept at brain-picking. He made a comfortable fortune and a reputation as an administrator in industry (Emerson Electric), came to Washington as Truman's Surplus Property chief in 1945, later became the first Secretary...
...have only one ambition," said cocky Don Meade, "to be the top-ranking jockey in America." He slashed his way to victory on Broker's Tip in the 1933 Kentucky Derby, had more winners than any other U.S. jockey in 1939 and 1941, earned a reputation for smart, hard riding if not for sportsmanship or trustworthiness. By 1945, he had been handed two more lifetime suspensions: one at Jamaica, N.Y. for "reprehensible conduct" (ordering a stablemate jockey to foul another competitor) and one for publicly insulting a Mexico City racing steward...
...certain of the year's festive seasons, you find yourself wishing you were a kid again, forget it. You're probably not smart enough. Qualifications for membership in the ranks of the under-12-year-olds, in whose honor the larger emporiums are currently running pandemoniums called toy departments, are high; and aspirants had better have a good understanding of pantographs, sismographs, spinthariscopes, the electrolysis of nickel compounds, the 12-tone scale, and most of the wizardry of modern electronics--to mention only a few points. This is all sine qua non equipment and enables you to perform the elementary...
...held up a test booklet and waved it. "Most of you guys go to Harvard, and you'll probably find this pretty easy. Some of you may get a 100. But if any of you guys are smart enough to think you can get out by flunking the test you're wrong. We know how much you know, and even if you flunk it you pass." It was a forty-minute test, with simple two pints plus four pints arithmetic problems and the flexible figures of spatial relations. The sergeants, corrected the test immediately. The group average seemed...