Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...string of smart motors swished up the driveway to Mrs. Edward Small Moore's shingled, rambling country home in Roslyn, L. I. one sunny morning last week. Out of the shining automobiles stepped 70 ladies clad brightly, tastefully, expensively. Reckoned by money and prestige, they were the cream of the nation's womanhood, gathered from Maine to Oregon. Inside the Moore house they sat on Early American chairs and ate a chatty meal. Then the ladies repaired to a long drawing room full of roses and tulips. At this point the gathering lost all resemblance to a conventional...
Republican campaigns are inclined to be steady, grave affairs which start slowly and work up to a dignified climax about Nov. 1. They have a way of winning elections by machine-like strength rather than by inspired management or smart innovations. They arouse no crusading enthusiasms among the electorate but they make no major blunders. They are cool, cautious, calculated...
Outside the U. S. the man who owns a motor car is ipso facto assumed to be rich. In Europe and in South America automobile clubs are the acme of smartness.* Last week rich & smart Germans were profoundly stirred by the decision of their National Automobile Club to adopt as its Patron "His Imperial and Royal Majesty Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia...
Attracted by news of this novelty which spread like wildfire through smart Mayfair, an unusually large number of their Lordships strolled in, several wearing bright-colored Ascot waistcoats...
...Berlin and in Vienna last week Fascist rioting at last crept from proletariat to fashionable quarters, terrorized tourists on the boulevards, respected not even the immunity of foreign diplomats sipping champagne in Vienna's smart International Country Club...