Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fabric gloves 44?. . . . We don't believe they're quite as smart as pique and organdy (at $1 and $1.95) but they're much easier to wash...
Picture Snatcher (Warner) is a vulgar but generally funny collection of black outs. They concern a young racketeer (James Cagney) who finds to his endless delight that he cannot be put in jail for stealing pictures for the tabloids. He also finds that his brother journalists are smart but no match for him. Smartest of them is a rowdy sob-sister (Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert...
...continuously. Inside, the old theatre had changed its aspect completely. A floor had been built over the worn, red plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage but the smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini per- formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally been given at London's historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris...
Residents of Manhattan's smart East End Avenue and Henderson Place did not know what they had to contend with when their cats began to disappear last fortnight. Even a socialite cat may stray, but when Writer Gilbert Seldes' Daisy, Lawyer Walter Richmond Herrick's Tiddles and several other pets vanished in quick succession it began to look as though there were a gatophobe in the neighborhood. Peter Herrick, 10, whose favorite pet Tiddles had been for some seven years, took to his bed with a fever, would not be comforted...
About 75% of the saddle and 10% of the harness horses exhibited at past National Horse Shows in Manhattan have been made smart and spirited-looking by this mutilation. There will be fewer & fewer of them in coming years. The new law rules that no horse may be shown in New York which has had its tail "nicked" after...