Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ivory-white, lipstick-red, and a suave, tawny brown are the colors of Florence Jones. These were colors good enough for smart, expatriate Americans of both hemispheres who discovered "Florence" making excellent waffles in the Rue Pigale some four years ago. Her waffles became a fad, and so many rich waffle eaters washed the golden morsels down with amber champagne that, today, Florence Jones te more purseful than many of her clients. The fact that this handsome Negress, genuinely from Harlem, keeps the smartest boite de nuit* in Paris, was evident again last week, when His Royal Highness, 27-year...
Whatever is royal and at the same time smart and sumptuous, in the Netherlands, will usually be found to appertain to that great lady, the Queen Mother Emma. Her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, is undoubtedly more popular, more Dutch, more well-beloved; but the Queen Mother is Royal, as though by Right Divine-in the manner of Alexandra, late British Queen Mother. Therefore last week it was naturally Queen Emma who received at Castle Soest Dyk, her summer residence, a lady who is the consort of Wilhelm II and is known in the Netherlands as "Empress" Hermine...
...palaces, Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle started on his way to fame. Like other actors, he preferred what was then the greater glory and emolument of the legitimate stage to the comparatively bastard screen. Baby Mine was his first vehicle (in stock company). In 1910, they say, it was a smart and even froward thing. In 1927, it looks like a bustle in a Shubert show. Mr. Arbuckle enacts a pulpy mass who alternately stews in sweaty fear and freezes in gelatinous embarrassment, because a lady of his acquaintance tries to win back her husband with a show of triplets...
Soundly and sufficiently autobiographical, the story is told in the mills. Hard-muscled, Author Walker does not care. He offers an important enigma, not a smart conundrum with the solution on the last page. Instead, at the bottom of the last page: "Dirty Reed interrupted, 'New jobs,' he began, 'new bosses-' " first person. Avoiding the vanity of this approach, Author Walker uses his pronoun mainly as a lens for objective experiences. For reader as for Harris Burnham's fiancée, there is resentment against his preoccupation with factories...
...they sailed?and behind their backs, in the U. S., flippant, shallow-minded cynics and "sophisticates" snickered at them privately and in smart-charts, or wriggled in cheap self-consciousness to think that these, the butts of so much "horse-laughter" at home, should "parade American crassness before the eyes of Europe...