Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hubbard, H. R. Jones, O. L. Loring, W. B. Macomber, J. J. Maher, E. W. Marshall, E. W. Martin, Dudley Merrill, F. S. Moseley Jr., W. I. Nichols, R. W. Puffer, W. T. Reid 3rd, K. M. Rogers, L. H. Roots, R. H. Schacht, J. E. Skilling, C. A. Smart, D. E. Spencer, R. LeB. Sweeney...
...plans to offer "a comprehensive picture, critically presented, of the entire American scene "-fine arts, politics, industrial and social relations, science. And it will strive to maintain the point of view of the "civilized minority." For several years Messrs. Nathan and Mencken have been conducting a magazine known as Smart Set, one of a group aimed more or less at the "uncivilized majority." Snappy Stories, Saucy Stories, Detective Tales, Breezy Stories, The Black Mask, 'Young's Magazine, have been among Smart Set's comrades in arms...
Died. Sir H. T. Smart, Bart., 70, comic opera and vaudeville actor, known professionally as Charles Archer, at Los Angeles. Preferring the life of an actor to that of a baronet, he came to the U. S. in his youth and went West with the first Pinafore company...
...Mencken and George Jean Nathan, iconoclast editors of Smart Set, delight in insulting their fellow men. Each month they proclaim in Smart Set their candidacy for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States and announce various platform planks, of which the following are typical...
...current issue of Smart Set Mr. Mencken reviews A Man from Maine, biography (TIME, April 14) of Cyrus H. K. Curtis by Mr. Curtis' son-in-law, Edward W. Bok. After speaking of Mr. Curtis as "the Philadelphia Barabbas" and of Mr. Bok (whom he insists on calling Edwin W. Bok) as " a quite unusual Babbitt," Mr. Mencken concludes with this indictment: " A bad, bad book. An incredibly mushy, banal, tedious and preposterous book...