Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether it is smart to drink, or not smart not to drink, or smart to have a private bar, or not smart not to have one, was not explicitly stated by Publisher Conde Nast's smartchart House & Garden, in the September issue of which, with artful photographs and over the captions "TO PROMOTE A PLEASANT PASTIME . . .DECORATION ENTERS A NEW FIELD," appeared the following descriptions...
...girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...
Next day he flew back to Lakehurst, the sacks under his eyes less baggy. Train took him to New York where the city gave him a hero procession. Over it sailed a laugh at the smart community, an airship hailed as the Graf Zeppelin. It was the Los Angeles, returned unexpectedly from Cleveland. The Graf Zeppelin stayed at Lakehurst having its Los Angeles damage repaired and being refueled and reinflated for its last leg home to Friedrichshafen...
With the liver-colored marble lobby of the smart Hotel Bristol startlingly empty, a committee of Viennese hotelkeepers, shopkeepers and businessmen trudged to the Austrian Chancellery, demanded to see Prime Minister Dr. Streeruwitz...
Douglas Ludlow Elliman, potent Manhattan realtor, through whom (Douglas L. Elliman & Co.) or his competitor-brother (Lawrence B. Elliman of Pease & Elliman Inc.) many a smart Manhattanite obtains his abode, returned from a European yachting trip, reported on the foreign housing situation. His points: in London the trend is toward private homes; apartments ("flats") are "a drug on the ma-ket." In Paris, Athens, Belgrade, Milan and many another continental city, the opposite is true. The co-operative apartment idea has "taken" in Paris...