Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the Republican Senators will remember, through renewed daily contact, the industry and ability of the tall, rugged, quiet Senator who sits just in front of Leader Curtis and is his Whip, Washington's Wesley L. Jones, expert on shipping and tending up to business. While a Moses smart-cracks and a Watson frowns or booms into space, while a Borah watches from on high and a Reed haggles and a Fess fusses, Senator Jones keeps his eyes upon and his nose in a mountain of work upon his desk, a mountain that does not consist of mouselike letters...
...last week French Justice was avenged, when smart Mr. & Mrs. Beck applied for a Paris divorce. They were told that their mode of life did not constitute a "fixed residence," and that at least one of them would have to reside ashore for at least six months before they could apply for a French divorce...
...fitting, therefore, that when Duquesne Light planned its new development, the company should honor a former official, a famed son of Pittsburgh. Entirely fitting, too, was the invitation to Lawyer Reed's son to speak at the dedication. Smart son of a smart father, and smart namesake of a smart granduncle, David A. Reed, 47, has many a distinction. He is a close friend of Andrew W. Mellon. He is, at the moment, both senior and junior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, because Philadelphia's Vare has not yet been admitted to the U. S. Senate...
...that they lived down the velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother...
...dissemination of honest information regarding the Church of Rome. Among its directors are many famed non-Catholics, such as Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard (retired), Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Louis Wiley, Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews. Also there is Rev. T. Lawrason Riggs, smart Catholic chaplain of New Haven, Conn.** The name of the organization is in loving memory of George Calvert, founder of Maryland Free State. Better than any other Catholic organization it has reached non-Catholics. But its GOOD AMERICANISM advertisement was criticized for using bad taste to combat bad taste...