Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enormously popular Hall-Mills murder trial in Somerville, N. J., a syndicate press service last week introduced a reportorial method more intrusive than ever. It employed Fannie Hurst, smart Semite novelist of the "gusher" type with a working knowledge of popular psychoanalysis, to observe Mrs. Hall, widow and alleged destroyer of a faithless clergyman, a stolid-seeming woman whose expressionless demeanor upon the witness stand was baffling the sharpest gimlets in the press gallery...
...Liveright ($2). The title simply means, from a British catchphrase, "wrong train." Denham Dobie, daughter of a peace-loving British cleric, grows up barefoot in a remote Spanish hamlet with a native stepmother and half-breed half-sisters. Her father dies. Her aunt, the Elinor Glynnish wife of a smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give Denham a map, a fishline...
...Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, William Howard Taft, '78-as in the forefront of the drive. But, as everyone knows, a University drive depends for its success primarily upon the wits, the diplomacy, the oratory, the industry, of its President-in this case, James Rowland Angell, smart son of a smart father, the late famed President James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan. Poor Columbia University, whose student fees pay only 40% of its maintenance cost, received only $80,000 donations through its alumni fund last year. In order to provide against future impoverishment, William Vinton King, Chairman...
...This "smart" innovation, as he calls it, is one of the most delightful sections of TIME. A host of other subscribers join me in feeling that it has proved itself a valuable guide in our reading and gift buying in the short term of its existence. I have perfect confidence in your book editor's selections, and have read almost every book recommended, reaping both benefit and pleasure...
...Approval. Frederick Lonsdale's genius for smart repartee dialogue finds many a brilliant opportunity in a play with only four characters. Mrs. Wislack (Violet Kemble Cooper), widow, will experiment for one month with the temperament of mild Richard Halton (Wallace Eddinger) before risking another matrimonial venture. The Duke of Bristol (Hugh Wakefield) is more of an opportunist. He sets his suave cap for immediate acquisition of Helen Hayle (Kathlene MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack...