Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings or crowsfeet; an aged German baron with a limp and many liaisons; a social-climbing physician whose heart is in interior decorating; a reportorial dandy; a gangster's girl and their "oozy" baby?are other marionettes in this smart book for which so eminent a critic as Ford Madox Ford has risked an "admirable . . . absolutely astonishing...
TIME did not, does not belittle the son of the President of the United States. But John Coolidge is still an undergraduate, and was therefore not mentioned by TIME in recalling "smart sons" of Presidents who have made their mark in the world at large...
...than whom there was no more revered statesman in the 19th Century. His ancestors, sprung from Yorkshire yeoman stock, potent in a rising industrial era, Tory to the core, saw in him the future leader of the Tories. A scholar and a football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some say that he disappointed his ancestors. He was a Tory who could see two sides to every question. In a time of domestic crisis, he took the helm, taxed incomes, lowered the tariff, wiped out a treasury deficit...
...American Mercury was founded in 1924 to give Editor Mencken scope for his vituperation of the U. S. scene. He and Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had become financially comfortable, not through Smart Set which they edited with more thought than thanks, but through two little aphrodisiacs, La Parisienne and Saucy Stories, founded for revenge and sold at fat profits. The revenge was upon society...
...Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, another Hugenberg journal, took up the cry; and 1,600 provincial papers imitated. His Telegraphic Union serves them with distorted (Nationalist Party and People's Party) news and features. Smart Germans felt that Herr Hugenberg was laying some strategic news mesh...