Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a play has been publicly suppressed by Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain, it can still be privately performed before a "subscription audience." Last week such an audience of smart Londoners assembled unblushingly, rustling with anticipation, to see sardonic Alfred Savoir's suppressed drama The Lion Tamer or How the Englishman Was Eaten...
...reports that Nephew Gwynne had actually completed a whole fortnight's visit in Manhattan without doing anything outrageous, and had been received as persona grata by General and Mrs. Vanderbilt. Today Nephew Gwynne-no bankrupt-is the solvent, industrious and incorporated publisher of The Boulevardier, a Paris smart-chart resembling Manhattan's New Yorker...
...with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor of Deauville (which he launched as a smart resort with Eugene Cornuche), owns his own marque of champagne, keeps a smart racing stable, and draws most of his immense income from real estate scattered throughout Europe and South America, from oil fields in Mexico, and from Le Journal...
...occasional pinch-hitting director of Le Journal in his absence, Erskine Gwynne naturally acquired the bibulous intimacy with Le Monde Mondain which has enabled him to found and float The Boulevardier. Today he claims 7,000 subscribers, and a larger Paris circulation than the international Paris Comet, a rival smart-chart published simultaneously in Paris, London, and Manhattan...
Experienced Prince Pierre de Polignac temporized, seemed to yield. By all means let there be a commission! Affably His Highness named three each of the resigned National and Communal councilmen to compose the Commission. Also the smart son-in-law had a proclamation from Prince Louis to read-a paternal, gently reproving proclamation...