Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention also gave thought to a motion adopting an attractive blue cape lined with gold and a smart French cap as the official uniform of service women. Mrs. C. M. Drew, author of the resolution, pointed out that many of the women were no longer able to wear their uniforms which had succumbed either to the weight of the years or the added weight of their wearers. The matter was referred to the executive committee...
...slick-looking man walked up to me and said his name was Wallen and that he was from New York. ... He seemed to know all about my folks. He led me to believe that he was acquainted with President Coolidge and Senator Norbeck. He talked like a powerful smart man. . . . He told me a lot about politics that I never knew before. I occasionally said yes, yes, to the things he was telling me, in order to keep him going and tell me more...
...Smart Londoners first ignored, then snubbed, then socially embraced Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge, keen but eccentric U. S. born founder of the first U. S.-type London "department store," Selfridge...
...Pré Catalan,* smart restaurant in the leafy Bois de Boulogne, there motored out last week from Paris the Cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincare. An air of mystery and suppressed mirth prevailed, for M. Poincare was not supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen...
Investiture. During the afternoon which followed the death of Ferdinand, a smart cavalcade of the Household Cavalry trotted through Bucharest as the advance guard of a procession. Came the Prefect of Police, then the Marshal of the Court. Came finally a State carriage, in which sat the young king between two royal ladies: 1) Princess Ileana (Michael's aunt) who rode in the procession because her mother, now only "Dowager Queen Marie," was "prostrate with grief"; 2) Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania (Michael's mother) who would now be queen had not her husband, onetime Crown Prince Carol, renounced...