Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country. What made them newsworthy, however, was not the display of feminine finery but the angry resentment they kindled in the breasts of the most beautiful young women in the U. S. Bitterly the professional models and mannequins have protested the continual hiring of society models for fashionshows and smart advertising displays...
...known as "Mimsy" to her friends, Miss Taylor is the daughter of Bertrand L. Taylor and the present Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo. She is careful to avoid posing for any of the more intimate feminine accessories, but she is always available for such publications as Vogue, such smart shops as Jay Thorpe and Saks Fifth Avenue. From them she asks and gets $50 an hour. Most of what she makes she spends on dramatic lessons...
Present-day boys at the large, smart, modern school in the gentle hills of mid-New Jersey are inclined to view the Johnsonian pranks as childish. Their chief stunt is to make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville...
With France in the grip of acute Deflation, neither her bankers nor the Government want another spectacular suicide. Last week was a good time for a smart Frenchman like André Citroën to sell his life dearly. Having hurled his ultimatum he sat back and did not have to wait long...
...Ergon patents abroad with $45,000 of Fox Film money and hence had no right to them. And finally it was argued that the "double print" and "sprocket" processes for recording and reproducing sound-the prime points of dispute-were not entirely fundamental and could be circumvented by smart sound-engineers by the time the smoke of litigation cleared. Nevertheless no one denied that R. C. A. Photophone and Western Electric's Electrical Research Products were holding conferences behind locked doors, or that the latter found it necessary to reassure exhibitors that they would be protected according to contract...