Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lovely Lady. Jesse Lynch Williams wrote a crisp comedy some seasons ago called Why Marry and was applauded mightily. He followed it with one called Why Not, slipping a notch or two down in entertainment values. This, his third, is pretty definitely uninteresting despite his irresistible facility for smart dialog. He deals with the not particularly novel theme of a father and son in pursuit of the same lovely lady. She happens to be a lady not exactly young, nor too immaculate of reputation. Bruce McRae and Elizabeth Risdon contribute generously with deft performances...
However you may estimate the degree of poetry in Mr. Doughty's song, the realization of its impressionistic originality persists. Way in the back of the magazine is Richard Linn Edsall's "Revulsion." A "Rondean" by Mr. Smart and a "Pause" by the same poet are sandwiched in to the advantage of the poetical average of this number...
...Beekman Place, Manhattan, ("rival to Sutton Place"), real estate dealers have induced many people, "smart," "artistic" and "high-grade," to fix their abodes. At No. 23 lives Katherine Cornell, famed actress; at No. 27, Actor William Farnum; nearby are Earle Booth, Margalo Gillmore; and at No. 37 one Marcus Schlossman, dealer in plumbing supplies, a blunt forthright fellow, has his home. Long has Plumber Schlossman viewed with alarm the growing "exclusiveness" of the district, the efforts of realtors to attract even more fine feathers. It did not help the plumbing trade, that much he knew. Was such cock-loftiness even...
There "knock-out" is a kind of smart chicanery by which art dealers reap illicit gains. Instead of bidding against each other, they obtain valuable objects at insignificant cost by forming a pool and appointing a representative to bid for them. Whatever is bought in the interests of the pool is sold again to private individuals or at other auctions and the profits divided. It was an open secret among the Trade in London that the Leverhulme "knock-out" would net its participants approximately half a million dollars out of the pockets of the estate...
...what is said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...