Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman, W. L. Maclachlan, Marjoire McKay; W. G. Maclachlan, Kathryn Butlers; H. V. Smart, Margaret Noble; C. E. Huson, Mabel Elliot; C. A. Gregory, Mildred Pinkham; G. N. Miller, Amelia Foss...
AREN'T WE ALL?Smart, sophisticated, sparkling English comedy, giving Cyril Maude every opportunity to score as a delightful old reprobate lord who sought his amourettes in the depths of the British Museum...
Aren't We All deserves all the usual reviewer's adjectives beginning in "s." It is smart and suave and sophisticated and sparkling?as amusing an English comedy as Manhattan has seen in some time. The plot turns about one of those kisses that are administered just to pass the time away?this time by a pleasant young gentleman, who thinks his wife is abroad, to a pretty girl, slightly under the influence of her own voice singing a love song. The wife discovers the kissers?and complications begin. Of course all are finally reconciled after many humorous misadventures that...
...flunkey and said, "Initiation." Then he too laughed in my face. I could have killed him! I was told later that he was a British naval captain being given a dinner by the Chamber of Commerce. The capitalistic parasite! When I heard that, I could have made him smart, exposed him before the crowd. But nobody seemed to take any further notice of me, try though I would to attract attention. Fools...
...Kenneth Dole's "A Farmer Boy Dreams of Wandering", though pleasantly ringing with sonorous names, fails of any effect but that of looseness. His changing metres do not modulate into one another; they clash roughly, giving the impression that the author has written down at random, without revising, Mr. Smart's "Lines before a Fairy Tale", is wholly delightful; a small bit of decoration provocatively brief. Mr. John Abbott's "Marginal" is also a good picture, but, unfortunately, must join that great body of poems with weary last lines. His "Sonnet for Cynthia", too, dwindles away...