Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smart British sahibs of Calcutta affected unconcern, when the Hindu Congress met, 6,000 strong, within strolling distance of the leafy Meidan, where sahibs and mem-sahibs take their aristocratic air of an evening. Actually anxious talk buzzed all up and down the English clubs and offices in Calcutta's busy Chawringhee. It was surely no good sign when the 6,000 delegates and their more than 11,000 sympathizers proceeded to burn huge piles of Made-in-England goods before sitting to business. Presiding hysterically over the bonfire, Pandit Nehru cried: "Hail, soldiers of Swaraj [Self-Determination...
...deed which nearly unseated Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, himself suspected of ordering the crime (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.). With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator felt strong enough to possess himself of the Ministry of Home Affairs, giving the Ministry of Colonies to Federzoni...
...Bolshevism, but even this fact does not dissuade the Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch Romanov-surviving cousin and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas the Last-from wearing whenever he chooses a red boutonniere. Thus last week His Imperial Highness, who is now lecture-touring U. S. cities, received smart Manhattanites in his suite at the Hotel Ritz with a blood-red rosebud peeping from his buttonhole. The thing was urbanely and genuinely done. "I am of no party," smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting not only of himself and Russia but about the two other...
These were not the words of an ignorant chorus girl, chronicled in a cinemagazine, but those of Ethel Barrymore, put by herself in Manhattan's latest smart-chart, The American Sketch. With her were many more, bewailing, in violent fashion, the too few compliments with which U. S. critics had observed her, and other words celebrating the pretty speeches made to her by Max Reinhardt and polite Edouard Bourdet. Principally, it appeared to be a blast of publicity for Actress Barrymore's latest venture into theatrics, which last week opened in Manhattan, The Kingdom...
wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, on her way to a smart London dinner, stepped from her limousine into an open coal chute, partly disappeared. Helped out, Mrs. Houghton found she had sprained her ankle, went dinnerless back to the embassy...