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  • He also fancies himself a playwright, and approaches the well-heeled Mr. Dangle (Darragh Kennan) and the waspish Mr. Sneer (Jonathan Smoots), a pair of opinionated connoisseurs, in the hopes of enlisting their support for his latest effort, a tragedy called "The Spanish Armada" that ranks alongside "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" as the worst play ever written.

    Those Who Cannot Do… Terry Teachout 2011

  • Daniel and Smoots vie for the loyalty—and the soul—of Neoptolemus Paul Hurley, a young soldier who is torn between patriotic duty and personal honor.

    The Warrior's Dilemma Terry Teachout 2011

  • "Philoctetes," in which Sophocles dramatized the myth of the wounded Greek warrior (David Daniel) who was deserted by Odysseus (Jonathan Smoots) and his comrades, was largely forgotten save by classicists when Mr. Heaney published his English-language adaptation in 1991, four years before he won the Nobel Prize.

    The Warrior's Dilemma Terry Teachout 2011

  • Mr. DeVita is the very model of an anxious amateur playwright, by turns vain and obsequious, and Mr. Smoots is so elegantly supercilious that you'll wince with glee each time he slips in the knife and gives it a twist.

    Those Who Cannot Do… Terry Teachout 2011

  • I can find Fred Smoots -- not a dime a dozen, but I can find cornerbacks that can make plays.

    McNabb: "You have to start up front" Dan Steinberg 2010

  • The World Athletics Tour stop in Belem, Brazil, drew a handful of U.S. athletes, with three winners: Jason Smoots (100, 10.24), Carrie Messner (3,000 steeplechase, 9: 41.55) and Tiffany Ross-Williams (400 hurdles, 54.69).

    USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Spearmon fends off Wariner challenge in 200 2006

  • Shawn Crawford (10.04) and Jason Smoots (10.05) weren't far behind Powell.

    USATODAY.com - Athlete of the Week Clay posts a near-perfect 10 2006

  • Top-three finishers: Dwight Phillips, 2nd, long jump (8.30 meters/27 feet 2.75 inches); Sandra Glover, 3rd, 400 hurdles (54.15); Jason Smoots, 3rd, 100 (10.13); Lolo Jones, 3rd, 100 hurdles (12.83, same time as Jenny Adams).

    USATODAY.com - Hurdler Demus wins Athlete of the Week 2006

  • Jason Smoots won the 200 at the Grand Prix Rio de Atletismo in 20.97.

    USATODAY.com - Gatlin: Athlete of the Week, (co-)fastest of all time 2006

  • The Great Depression was primarily caused by loose banking regulations, then exacerbated by protectionist legislation (the Hawley Smoots tarif comes to mind as the most eggregious example).

    Sound Politics: Opportunities for Bipartisanship: Trade 2006

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