Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago smart pressmen crowded on shipboard about returning Dr. Lorenz. He looked chipper and gay. But the back-fence gossipers noted not his appearance. They wanted some slick phrase on which they could hang a story. Dr. Lorenz gave it to them: "Enjoy all vices in moderation." Fine! The phrase could be wrung into a salacious connotation. Far down in the story one could explain that the doctor meant that folk should work, play, sleep in moderation. The pressmen darted to their writing machines...
...many of the author's other ideas date from when they fought with spears, and he read about his characters in some book. He has been seen in better lights as versifier (The Quiet Singer, Manhattan, Beyond the Stars), as librettist and as sometime editor of The Designer, The Smart Set and McClure...
...story should screen exceedingly well and make its author some money. Nor should it sell badly in book form. The wholesome wild-western setting of Mary's seduction will reassure a vast public that might be disconcerted by the plentiful bits of smart writing and the gratuitous, but fastidious, indoor carnalities...
...business, brings in easy money and speedy opportunities for mild vice. A rich, but otherwise negligible, uncle gives him a minor executive position in a collar factory. He seduces a girl in his department and a little later is dazzled and attracted by a flapper of the smart local world who being weak in mind and character and susceptible to good looks, wants to marry him. In order to rid himself of girl number one, who is about to have a child he plans what will seem to be an accidental drowning in a lonely lake. He loses his nerve...
...more than 20 years he was superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School, although he had been brought up a strict Lutheran. His parents wanted him to become a minister and this religious attitude he kept throughout his life. How sore his heart when word was brought to him that smart-Alex Pittsburgh saloonkeepers had wanged out a ribald ditty at his expense. Nigger-prancers,* bum- mers, street sheiks, tenderloin riff-raff were chanting all over Pittsburgh, all over...