Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smart Americans...
TARNISH-Middle class morality, with its eyes made to smart by the tinsel of Broadway...
...fiction is a bit difficult to categorize. Its entire freedom from the plot-and-story complex will puzzle a few, but its artistic handling will please more. Mr. Smart, for example, writes merely a series of biographical anecdotes and analyses which he labels a "Pilgrimage"; but his rich and nicely turned style leaves the reader with no desire for dramatic ingenuity. It seems to me that Mr. Smart might some time try his hand at actual rather than fictitious literary criticism with decided success; the Advocate could do very well with something of the sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace...
Bishop Brown, in Galion, Ohio, shows signs of fight. The church is full of heretics, says he, and he will not get out until the other heretics get out. Then he makes the crack which is intended to smart in high places: "Is it my theology or my economics that is being attacked?" It is, of course, his economics, which even the Modernist handles with care...
...this move these two crusading spirits have brought comfort to those respectable souls who encountered most shocking statements in a chance perusal of the Smart Set. Now they need fear no such attacks upon their righteousness for the gadflies are all safely caged in one magazine...