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...rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...
...Vienna news of the Englis suggestion caused foreign holders of Czechoslovak crowns to dump their hordes frantically. At Prague the Czechoslovak Government tartly declared that "Professor Englis' suggestion is far from being realized," emphasized that only two days before Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes ("Europe's Smartest Little Statesman") had affirmed once again that the crown will not be taken off gold...
...road a Daimler "Double-Six" weighs over three tons, costs over $8,500, represents the supreme peacetime achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply ''B. S. A.'s." Smartest of medium-priced British sports cars today is the "M. G.," a rip-roaring little red bug made by sedate Morris Garages...
...bonds. Meantime another and more fearsome ghost had risen to plague Daniel Willard. Last spring Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, whose pet aversion is professors in Government and whose fortune is chiefly in railroads, turned up in Washington with one of Wall Street's smartest statisticians and a plan to merge all U. S. railroads into seven regional systems (TIME, April 10). Because it involved firing 300,000 railroad employees, the Prince plan was pigeonholed. But Mr. Prince's statistician, John Walker Barriger III, remained in Washington to become Chief Examiner...
...horseback should be a cut above other men. Last week he decreed that in the State of Prussia (which is nearly two-thirds of Germany) all jockeys and drivers of horses on Prussian racetracks must be Aryans. Jews may still own racehorses, enter them in Prussia's smartest meets, even win prizes-but Aryans must ride...