Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smart Guys. Editor Morris, who has had to resign his parish post in Birkdale, Lancashire to devote full time to the magazine, deftly manages to dispense his message without sacrificing any of the thrills & chills his readers expect for their thruppence. But beneath the candy coating the Christian pill can be detected in such touches as the special, advanced category of Eagle Club members called "Mugs...
This very same form of legalized larceny was perpetrated in Greece in April 1922. I was an accountant in Athens at the time. It may interest Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafrud-din Prawiranegara to know that Greek Finance Minister Protopapadakes, who put this smart idea across, was effectively cut in half by an ingeniously simple machine gun, along with the rest of the Greek cabinet, some six months later...
Last week the P-D's determined campaign got action in official Washington. The House subcommittee on immigration gave Ellen Knauff her first full public hearing. Wearing a pert sailor hat and a smart suit, Mrs. Knauff made an appealing and convincing witness; she blamed a jealous ex-sweetheart of her husband's for spreading "gossip" that she was a spy. Offered an opportunity to submit its own evidence and to question Mrs. Knauff, the Department of Justice refused on the ground that it would jeopardize its intelligence sources. With no evidence against Mrs. Knauff, the committee unanimously...
...Promise You. Meanwhile Jimmy Roosevelt was looking more & more like a pretty shrewd politico. Up & down the San Joaquin Valley he was drawing crowds to the back platform of his shiny new trailer-bus. For his campaign manager Jimmy badly wanted George T. Davis, a smart San Francisco lawyer who had run the California Truman-Barkley clubs. Davis wanted to be sure that it was all right with Harry Truman at Key West. After sounding out the Administration's boys in the back room, Davis came back with a demand from the Truman advisers that Jimmy promise in writing...
Carry found his man in white-thatched, pink-cheeked Thomas I. Parkinson, president of the $5.3 billion Equitable Life Assurance Society. Last week Parkinson announced a smart new solution to the problem. Equitable will buy cars from Pullman and other manufacturers (in payments spread over five years), and lease them to railroads on 15-year contracts. Gossip among railroad men was that the rent will be less than the $1.75 a day which roads now charge when they swap each other's equipment. When the contracts expire, the roads may return the cars to Equitable, or rent them...