Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Supercilious, smart-Alex fiction writers have taken occasion from time to time to throw jibes at the department store of the U. S. They have tried to make dry-goods men, furniture men, carpet men, glass, china and home-fixture men look funny. But last week they had their answer. "Where would the American home be without the dry-goods industry?" was asked, and well and fitly answered at the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Manhattan...
...talking straight out for publication, "If I were president of this university, and I am sure I should last about three months, I would eliminate the loafers if it took out 1,500. I would also eliminate the 'boozers,' the 'hipflask toters' and the fellows who think it's smart to violate the laws. When I got through there might not be more than 5,000 students here, but we might again have the atmosphere, earnestness and hard work which the university is said once to have...
...novel, Mr. Rennie impersonates a Long Island resident of no background, much money and a dubious method of getting it. Considerably in his way is the girl's husband, whose college education left him, chiefly, with a taste for liquor. The woman golf-champion and others in the semi-smart group that one presumably encounters on Long Island are also around. Mr. Fitzgerald has a home on Long Island and should know what he is laughing at; his laughter is often bitter. Perhaps that is why he is spending most of 1926 in various parts of France...
...York Times last week, advertising the latest, the very last thing in Florida realty- "the Floranada Club." An organization entitled the American-British Improvement Corporation, with a coat of arms showing eagle and lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway...
Dubuque, Ia., is a metropolis which has long been held up to derision by popular sophists. Because the erratic spelling and dubious pronunciation of the name make it seem to suggest provinciality, the smart Alecs of city journalism refer to ituque came, at a single bound, to long-merited renown...