Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gluck auf! auf wiedersehn! thin-faced Germans, expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...
School, Mount Holly, N. J. When Teacher Caroline Carroll stood up smartly with an American flag, all the other pupils raised their right hands in the trig salute that they had been taught to use. Not so William Albertson, who merely waggled one grimy paw. Said Teacher Carroll: "William Albertson, you salute that flag!" Smirked William Albertson: "Aw, I did salute it, didn't I, good enough?" Dullards sniggered, smart alecks frowned, Teacher Carroll made her face look stern. "You come with me, William Albertson, right now," said she. Out in the hall she seized William Albertson, shook...
...other fashionable people have their docks for swimming, in Winter Harbor. Along the coast is the polite and spectacular beauty of Mount Desert. Sorrento lies near the three, a village in which there are a few big country places and several inns, where people, rich and respectable rather than smart, stay for a few weeks or a month...
Although "shooting over dogs" is the most time-sanctioned method, it is now entirely passe, chiefly because smart, modern sportsmen no longer want to trudge after dogs which advance before them, flushing or scaring up the birds...
Married. Lucien Lelong, selfstyled inventor of the "kinetic theory* of feminine dress," and smart, leading Parisian couturier; to Princess Natalie Paley, daughter (by a morganatic marriage) of the late Grand Duke Paul, an uncle of Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...