Word: smartest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
...KMAG's acting commander. Wright quickly explained the situation. "Fluid but hopeful" was the way he summed it up. Korean officers who entered the room were more pessimistic. Tall, round-faced Colonel Kim Pak II, ex-Japanese army captain, now generally accredited the Korean army's smartest staffman, shook hands with me warmly, but his usual cheerful manner had given way to worried tenseness. "Not very good . . . not very good...
...Woodruff's smartest moves was his policy of supplying U.S. soldiers anywhere in the world with nickel Cokes, no matter how much money the company lost in the process. The Coke bottling plants which moved along with the invading U.S. armies and brought the sight and taste of Coke to millions of people who had never heard of it before were actually the biggest impetus of Coca-Cola's present international boom...
...room. They bedeviled his witnesses, dug up old ordinances to confound him. Douglas confessed to friends: "I have three degrees. I have been associated with intelligent and intellectual people for many years. Some of these aldermen haven't gone through the fifth grade. But they're the smartest bunch of bastards I ever saw grouped together...
...Floyd Wilson of the freshmen plans to start his regular five, he is hopeful that he will be able to give his reserves plenty of action. He said yesterday he was pleased with his club's progress to date, terming Saturday's 63 to 57 victory over Northeastern "the smartest game we've played this season...