Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must develop a process of dealing with situations as they arise by some orderly method. We must do what we can, albeit our powers may be limited, to build a law and legal institutions to which nations may appeal instead of allowing their differences to fester, to smart and to drag them apart. We must do this, at any rate, if we want our international society to be orderly and peaceful...
...growing popularity of wit for wits sake both in literature and in the drawing-room has led the editors of the Bookman to suggest that contemporary society in living in another age of Pope. The ascendancy of the light, smart novel as exemplified by Arlen, van Vechten, Huxley and their school, the Restoration atmosphere of the stage, the cynicism of the columnists--all point, they think, to "the hollowness of the times, a Godlessly clever...
...Smart tricks are in the Dartmouth bag: a triple pass, executed with the polish of a fortune-teller's shuffle; criss-cross plays that befuddled the Harvard backs as much as if they had seen Halfback Oberlander (Dartmouth) take a rabbit out of his helmet. Dark fell before Harvard's last frantic forward pass slipped through groping butterfingers to the ground. Score: Dartmouth 32, Harvard...
...Hopper is distinctly an actor of the old school. There is nothing that suggests Broadway about his attire, and his speech and manners are just the opposite of what passes among comedians nowadays as "smart". His choice of words and his enunciation is of a high order, and the deep-cheated volume and resonance of his speech suggests blank verse rather that humorous sally...
Sims-not the Rear Admiral whose likenesses adorn the cover of this magazine, nor the Seattle lumberman whose name may be remembered*-but Charles Sims, R. A., portrait painter of smart repute in England, exhibited last week at the Knoedler Galleries, Manhattan...