Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although no one has pulled any "live" stunts so far, the campaign still has a day to go. Voting is tomorrow. The quiet doesn't fool one Union porter, however. "These freshmen are smarter than most," he warned. "They'll wait for the right time, then, watch...
...they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...
...clothes hoarders, the New York Dress Institute last week suggested an awful punishment: "The inevitable cycle of change in fashion will mercilessly expose any woman with the grab instinct, leaving her high and dry with old-fashioned clothes, making her look foolish next year and out of step with smarter and more sensible women...
With these words, Johnston effectively established the fact that, though not a Dixiecrat like Thurmond, he was just as anti-Negro. Johnston also made it clear that he hated Harry Truman just as much, only he was playing it smarter: by being a Democrat he could sabotage the President better from the inside...
...long after, in 1904, Adolph Ochs made an even smarter move: he lured Night Editor Carr V. Van Anda of the New York Sun to become managing editor on the New York Times. In the next 25 years, Ochs and Van Anda made newspaper legend. It was Ochs who had set the basic pattern: "All the News That's Fit to Print." It was Van Anda, one of the great managing editors of U.S. journalistic history, who cut the cloth to the pattern. When Van Anda finally retired because of ill health in 1932 (he died...