Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediate effect of the Book of Lynch on U. S. infantrymen will be to reduce hours spent in antiquated close-order drill, increase the days devoted to field maneuver. Smart boys will catch on in two or three weeks; chuckleheads who look to left of trees after month's end will be demoted to the awkward squad...
Genial, 70-year-old ex-Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings invited 40 of his cronies as usual to play in the 16th annual Homer S. Cummings Golf Tournament at Pinehurst, N. C., then beat the lot for the second successive year. Prepared for this contingency, Champion Cummings got sleek, smart little onetime Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, ex-Ambassador to Belgium and to Russia, now assistant at the State Department, to present him with his own trophy...
...earliest known inhabitants of Ireland were people from Spain and some wanderers from northeastern Europe. The old Irish were smart. They worked metals a long time before the Stone Age ended in Britain...
...wearing a ballet costume and a red wig. The plug, advertising the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (see p. 38), was the bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...
Minnesota is accustomed to good football teams. The State is full of husky farm boys who make powerful linemen, powerful backs. When Minnesota gets a smart quarterback, to boot, it invariably has a great team. This year Minnesota has such a quarterback: Bobby Paffrath...