Word: smarted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week a smart launch detached itself and cut shoreward from the side of the S. S. President McKinley as she steamed into Manila Bay. From the launch, which seemed the liner's emissary, stepped Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, emissary of the parent U. S. to the Philippines...
...erect, military figure made haste to Malacanan Palace, official residence of the Governors General. A knot of small, smart, brown-skinned men-Filipino politicians-were waiting to shake hands. Col. Stimson also greeted some other small, smart, brown-skinned men who were to be his servants. "Oh, yes," he said, as a chef came forward. "Yes, I know Ming. How are you, Ming...
Inauguration ceremonies were held on the Luneta, one of the heights overlooking Manila Bay. After the oath, Governor General Stimson made a speech, portions of which his small, smart, brown-skinned audience took away behind impassive countenances to ponder upon...
...smart retort to, "Do you want a fight?" is still, of course, "Sir, I am a Tolstoyan...
...German promoters will follow the most advanced trend in the British greyhound racing craze, by holding meets on an illuminated track between the smart hours...