Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portions of the public cannot be denied. Alexander Woollcott put his discerning finger on the secret when he called the play a great love story. That it undoubtedly is, and as such must gain an inevitable and not unmerited popularity. But Mr. Arlen is not dealing in a new, smart medium as the world believes. It is love and sacrifice that makes The Green Hat good entertainment; not wit and glittering philosophy...
...infected with a disgusting and pathetic lust for pleasures which youth alone can make charming; whether or not the Mirror had any higher purpose in its denunciations than the enlargement of an already huge circulation-matters little. The whole episode merely furnished one more example of how a smart editor can make sensationalism the light that illumines his paper's exceeding morality...
...Augustus Thomas is now in his 69th year and has on the stage his 63rd play. More than 40 years ago, when he was a younger fellow, he was one of those smart looking little boys that run about on the floor of the Senate carrying notes to and from the venerable fathers of legislation. He has not forgotten political Washington in the interval nor lost touch with...
...their subconscious will, sing with the pomp of trumpets or the tenderness of fiddles, yet it is no pipe organ that they play, but a crisp, living, leaping engine of wire strings and felted hammers. Such a dream-piano may have been made incarnate by InventorJohn Hays Hammond Jr., "smart son of a smart father", (TIME, Aug. 17, AERONAUTICS). Last week he gave his name to a pedal...
...want any smart Alec tryin' to teach mah child that man descended from a tadpole or a monkey. . . . When a man gets so smart that he cain't believe the Bible, he's jest too smart to know that he's a fool...