Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven years ago the smart and sprightly Russian Bat flapped over U. S. cities with tempestuous and most merited éclat. As each number was introduced by the droll, Cheshire-cat-faced Nikita Balieff, an ticipant audiences rocked with a foretaste of merriment which always followed. The music of the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" penetrated every stratum of U. S. society. Not to have seen the "Wooden Soldiers" or "Katinka" or later "Katerina" was the height of rusticity or indifference...
Swarthy and reckless Signer Mario Carli, a young favorite of Il Duce, laid about him outrageously again, last week, in the lurid pages of his arch-Fascist Roman news sheet, L'Impero. Last fortnight Editor Carli outraged smart Italian women who slenderize themselves and refuse to have children by telling them (TIME, Jan. 21) that "such sweet egotists, such darling morsels of vanity, should be soundly smacked on every possible occasion!" Last week, even this ungallant bravado was eclipsed when Smacker Carli took a sounding wallop at tourists...
When asked "What's south of Mexico?" few U. S. citizens are smart enough to reply, "Guatemala." Last week, President Lazaro Chacon had to declare martial law, because one Col. Fernando Morales Jr. had suddenly fomented a revolt in Western Guatemala, and seized the city of Mazatenango...
...Story. Tie and socks meticulously matched, shirt and kerchief lovingly harmonized, Frith-Walter basked in his own well-grooming, beamed upon Miss Office smartly busy over his smart luggage. For she was the ultimate in secretaries; as was Elaine in charming wives, Jack in creditable sons, Pearl in chic, sophisticated daughters-in-law. Business was good, a holiday was in order, the most luxurious of trains snorted impatiently to carry Frith-Walter to the Riviera. He was healthy, he was wealthy, he was witty and wise; all was well with his world. "The earth lies all before...
...bunk. The complications resulting from his bluff are worked out so skillfully and with so little sentimentality that the people seem real and the situation funny and convincing at the same time ; that the end, confused by an unnecessary sound-sequence, is devoid of kisses, should not spoil this smart picture for the box office. Best shot: the Texan (Gary Cooper) drinking a chocolate ice-cream soda...