Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Square Presbyterian Church, the Library of Columbia University, and finally, the old Madison Square Garden (torn down last year). This bulking sultry building, with its hippodromes and galleries, tapering to Saint-Gaudens' winged Diana on its central citadel, had a roof garden with a cabaret show and a smart orchestra. Up in the tower, Stanford White had apartments, reached by the same elevator that communicated with the cabaret's chorus dressing-room. That June night, after the theatre, Mr. White had gone to the cabaret. He sat about for a while, then ordered a table and a bottle...
...bristlingly in little men. Mr. Wiley gives one immediately a sense of power, poised and acute. He has spent his life, beginning with a three-dollar-a-week job on a Rochester paper, in newspaper offices. He has more social contacts than his associates; he is often seen at smart parties, gravely watching from a portière, or dancing with a lady larger than himself...
...branch line of railroad takes you from the shabby Greensboro station an hour or two back through the hills to a smart, new station. Like as not the Travelers Aid attendant will invite you to use her telephone instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...
Secretly Married. John Hays Hammond Jr., 38 (smart son of a smart father), famed electrical inventor, to Mrs. Irene E. Felton Reynolds, divorced wife of a Gloucester, Mass., shoe dealer...
...engaging band of stagefolk tries to do the Chariot kind of thing. But they have no Beatrice Lillie and they have evidently fooled around at their rehearsals. They are not unlike high school celebrities giving a self-directed benefit, where the footlights falter and every one's pet smart cracks must be respected by all. Music by Gitz Rice, twitching by Irene Olson, genuinely ingenious gyrations by Nat Nazzaro Jr., have some merit. The chastely clad chorus is one of the prettiest units in town...