Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeds of musical talent in her grubby young son. Se bought the piano because her sister-in-law had one. There it stood, big and shiny; it had cost a lot of money, and no one in the Gershwin family-not even Ira, the oldest, who was certainly a smart boy- could make music on it. George would have to learn. For some time the neighbors suffered; then they advised him to study in Europe. His first teacher died when he was still torturing Chopin's preludes. Max Rosen, famed violinist, told him he would never be a musician...
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...DOVE ? Mandolin melodrama below the Mexican border in which the smart American outmaneuvers the oily Mexican and wins the girl...
Said persons appreciative of Publisher Nast: "How sensible of the publisher of a magazine for the smart set to project his activities right into its nightly lives...
...Easter Sunday, the President and Mrs. Coolidge attended divine service at the First Congregational Church, to which Mr. Coolidge had sent White House flowers. Their clothes were smart...