Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead man thus honored was Dr. Felix Deutsch, 70, President of the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (General Electric Company) famed as the A. E. G. Smart U. S. citizens knew Dr. Deutsch as the brother-in-law of Manhattan Banker-Art Patron Otto Hermann Kahn...
...possible future Empress of Japan was graduated, last week at Washington, D. C., from the Friends' School, a stiff Quaker seat of feminine learning. The graduate, pretty, vivacious, and popular among smart Washingtonians, is Miss Setsu Matsudaira, daughter of Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, and fiancee of Prince Chichibu of Japan, brother of the Sublime Emperor...
...cold game pie and plenteous musty ale is sometimes offered by Edward of Wales to that small smart set which fore-gathers at his bachelor quarters in York House (a wing of St. James's Palace). Last week this sporting company chuckled as His Royal Highness displayed a cartoon of his own sketching. It showed a plump and ruddy personage, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the act of presenting his Budget for 1928 to the House of Commons (TIME...
...tall, suave, dark-haired Frenchman for whom wheat is assuredly "the best vegetable" stepped off the liner Paris at Manhattan, last week, and set smart U. S. citizens to thinking back to the origins of bread & cake. The French wheat-man-a close friend of Herbert Hoover, and of Georges Clemenceau-is M. Ernest Vilgrain, president of the famed Société des Grands Moulins de Paris. Unlike the Mills of the Gods, the Moulins de Paris grind swiftly, grind more flour than any other chain of mills in France, and grind out steady profits absolutely without the selling...
...milksop is bristling, ruddy, white-haired Whitney Warren, smart and picturesque Manhattan architect, who designed the new Library, and received from Cardinal Mercier the virile Latin inscription. Last week Mr. Warren was in Belgium bristling against the would-be emasculators. "The nigger in the woodpile," said he scathingly, "has evidently been my dear friend, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace. . . . The people of Belgium want the inscription and I might add, a very large majority of the American contributors do also. ... In America the lives of so-called free American citizens are made unbearable...