Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beholden to you if you would inform me in what sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there we go on to "sharp, intelligent, adroit and clever." And if this were not enough, to "forward in speech and behavior, saucy, cheeky and malapert." After that the S.O.E.D. proclaims that pert "may be used as a vague expression of disfavor." Comes now, "bold," followed...
...Managing Editor James; Assistant Managing Editor Catledge; Assistant to the Publisher (and son-in-law) Orvil Eugene Dryfoos; Editor Charles Merz, boss of the editorial page; General Adler; Washington Correspondent Krock (when he's in town), and Sunday Editor Lester Markel, 56 (TIME, March 8, 1948), the restless, smart and hard-driving boss of the four excellent Sunday feature sections, which have helped boost the Sunday Times from 778,000 to 1,153,000 circulation since he joined the staff as Sunday editor 27 years...
...their attention to such outstanding colts as Hill Prince, Your Host, Middleground, Oil Capitol and Theory, now had to take a sharp second look at Mr. Trouble. Early this week, with the Derby five days away, his odds were down to 10-1. Those who had been lucky or smart enough to get down in the winter book at 40-1 just looked pleased...
...There are really only two kinds of people in the world," explains "The Editor." "One kind are the Mugs. The opposite of the Mugs are the Spivs-also called wide boys, smart guys, hooligans, louts or racketeers. The Mugs are the people who are some use in the world: the people who do something worthwhile for others instead of just grabbing for themselves all the time. Of course the Spivs snigger at that. They use the word Mug as an insult. 'Aren't they mugs?' they say about people who believe in living for something bigger than...
Menotti is smart enough to know that "if you start running after successes you're through." He feels that "any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intensely he must sing it out." He is sure his inspiration would fail if he tried to compose the same kind of opera time & again. Moreover, he argues that although the public shouts, "That was fine, give us another just like that," it really "does not want what it thinks it wants." Generally, he thinks the U.S. public is too unresponsive about what it hears. Last week...