Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GREAT BRITAIN "Piggy People" Smart and sportsmanly Britons have long playfully called each other "horsey people"; and last week it began to seem that foremost British statesmen will soon be known as "piggy people." For some years, the hobby of pig keeping has been pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable...
...closely watched her chances and shouted disconcerting questions in such fashion that two more hymns had to be sung - while Evangelist McPherson flushed hotly in her pulpit. Finally, with a laugh which some considered mocking, the Reverend "Bishop" Mrs. Alma White flounced out of her box and Albert Hall. Smart London had no need to notice or to scoff. The third McPherson revival was cancelled, when not even the lower classes could be induced to buy more than...
...lives were lost because smart Swiss geologists had predicted the landslide, and warned all inhabitants to leave the vicinity...
...years smart young women have been trying to rival with their versification Edna St. Vincent Millay. But she eludes them all with her impertinent patter?"a few figs from thistles"?and, in more serious vein, with her virile poetry culminating in the lyric drama which sang itself to Deems Taylor's opera The King's Henchman, produced sensationally at the Metropolitan...
...Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Calcutta, Berlin and hundreds of other cities the sign Bat'a is displayed above a store which is the acme of modernity. Indeed a pilgrim to the Holy City will find that Bat'a's shoe shop in Jerusalem has "done" its windows in smart "modernistic" squares and angles...