Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost any embassy may aspire to these honors. They were bestowed in Chicago, last week, by Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Palmer upon the Second Secretary of the Persian Embassy, one Prince* Mozaffar Firouz. The Secretary-Prince is slender, with large nose and an intelligent expression. Obliging, he read to smart Chicagoans a lecture: The Regeneration of Persia. Tidily he ate off the McCormick plate of gold, creating fewer crumbs than many another guest...
...delicious "Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English or Dutch gin as a favorite cocktail ingredient. Today one may step up to any smart bar and obtain deft action by exclaiming "A Ponce!" Strangely enough Jean Hennessy swears that he has never tasted one. Wet by profession, he is socially and privately dry. In 1910 he became a Deputy, in 1924 Ambassador to Switzerland and recently Minister of Agriculture...
...perfumes of FrançoisCoty will be glad to know that the paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper...
Sophisticates of smart Berlin and worldly Hamburg have witnessed and applauded, during the past month, a modernist farce in which an actor programmed as God waddles upon the stage in plus fours, shakes cocktails for his cackling crony St. Peter, and holds hands upon a sofa with Mary Magdalene...
Fighting mad Christians were able to retort to Frankfurt's too-smart critics that the Savior once seized a heavy whip and laid valiantly about him, until he had driven the last moneychanger out of the Temple...