Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They jingle big money in their pockets and coin purses, and look around for something expensive to buy, something they never felt they could afford before. We thought the big money came our way just because we were smart. So now the younger generation are so much smarter than we were 25 years ago that we can't tell them anything...
...many a U.S. banker it seemed that Mr. Bracken would have been smarter to compare Mr. Morgenthau to the late Andrew Mellon, whose astute Government financing was marred by the market flop of the famous Mellon issue of 3% bonds in 1931. For Mr. Morgenthau went to London just after he had had an equally outstanding failure...
...Meets Mule. To many a mountain soldier, spring with its mules was a comedown. When trooper met mule, man & beast were mutually suspicious. The Army began a glamorizing campaign, argued that mules were smarter, surer-footed and more playful than horses, hung a sign: "Through These Portals Pass the Most Beautiful Mules in the World" (see cut, p. 62). Result: many a ski trooper volunteered to work with the animals, now thinks that mules as well as skis have their points...
...that a sow was suckling pigs and at the same time being serviced by a boar. A sow will refuse to take a boar until her previous litter are weaned. However in three days after the pigs are weaned she is willing to take. In this respect hogs are smarter than men and women as they thereby gain strength to support adequately the new litter. I have raised many hogs and . . . know for a fact as any informed hog raiser also does that what I state is true and what Miss Rawlings writes is only interesting . . . reading for the uninformed...
With these words, Pundit Walter Lippmann last week reprimanded Franklin Roosevelt for talking out of turn about religious freedom in Russia. Certainly the President was not very smart in arousing Mr. Lippmann and others. But perhaps the President was a little smarter than Walter Lippmann knew...