Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tang Shao-yi might have added the concluding detail that Rescuer Hoover wrapped up a Chinababe in his coat, during the fire, and dashed with her from the house. She, a daughter of Tang Shao-yi, grew up to become that very great and smart lady, Mrs. Wellington Koo, whose husband was, before 40, ambassador to two big nations, twice a minister in the Chinese cabinet, twice a delegate to international conferences, and to the League Assembly...
First is Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 54, Earl of Athlone, a brother of Queen-Empress Mary, and since 1923 His Majesty's Governor General of the Union of South Africa. All his life he has been a soldier-a smart Hussar, an impeccable Life Guard, and finally, during the South
...Without comment, William Randolph Hearst sold his McClure's and Smart Set to James R. Quirk, publisher of Photoplay Magazine and Opportunity...
Persons of fashion use a strange adjective for the things which they consider as belonging properly to their environment; such things they call "smart." Less polished people use an adjective which is far more descriptive of smart things: they use the word "ritzy." The word is from the proper noun, Ritz; Ritz is the name of the smartest chain of hotels in the world...
...hugging voluptuary who lies in bed groaning and pretending to be dying. Seeing him so, his companions in coin-clutching, each hoping to be made his heir, come to his bedside bearing gifts and ready to commit other offices of friendship. Volpone's assistant in deception is the smart and fluttering Mosca; together, they are reaping a rich harvest until Volpone attempts to perform rape upon a friend's wife, sent to him for no better reason. Tried in court for this offense and adjudged innocent, Volpone tries another wily and audacious rascality, one which leads...