Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-socialist ranks include Prime Minister Poincaré, erudite Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, and smart, facile Minister of Public Works André Tardieu. A swing by the electorate to these men and their supporters would mean the definite retention in office of M. Poincaré and the consecration of his policies...
...Washington and elsewhere, smart Germans recalled to each other the gallant War record of much-wounded von Huenefeld. The monocled eye is said to be almost sightless. The heart, loyally Hohenzollern, has never recovered gaiety since...
...twinkling-eyed, cherubic-countenanced old Irishman who grumbled thus, last week, is George Moore, 75, litterateur, epicure, and naughty-man-of-letters. Few smart, well-read folk do not know his Confessions of a Young Man; his great trilogy Ave, Salve, Vale; and his more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from...
...Smart folk who plan to visit the Orient, next winter, will seek Japan during the Coronation of His Imperial Majesty the Sublime Tenno Hirohito...
Last week the Imperial Household Ministry let fall, provisionally, words and dates significant to the smart. On Nov. 3, 1928, the Tenno will depart amid pomp from Tokyo, and arrive next day at the ancient capital of Kyoto. There he will be crowned on Nov. 7, and will pass the subsequent week in "Sacred Rituals and Banquets...