Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flowers, with thugs and city officials tramping solemnly side by side . . . "Scarface Al" Caponi sitting quietly in the restaurant of his Cicero hotel with machine gun bullets whistling all around him. . . . As King Caponi once said: "It [the Prohibition law] looked like a good opening for a lot of smart young...
Like stern proconsuls* of Imperial Rome, four Italian Colonial Governors make almost 2,000,000 natives smart with commands backed by steel. Two† of the four colonies have no native parliaments; and the other two** seemed about to lose theirs last week. At Rome the doom of every sort of native autonomy in Italian Colonies was sealed when Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni published, last week, the text of a law approved for enactment by Dictator Benito Mussolini...
Whatever can have been your purpose in the use of the introductory sentence* I cannot fathom, unless it were a desire to be "smart...
...trouser pocket." They wrenched $25 out of my pocket and fled to the roof of the house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia...
Amazing, fragmentary child's world: But Ecclesiastic Cadman had stopped and the pale handmaiden found herself facing the embattled visages of churchmen, curiosity-seekers, smart reporters, cynics, all agreed secretly to themselves to be as tolerant as possible...