Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that old rebel Jose Sanchez Guerra whom he had "cleverly...
...Hoover wants to find things out in Russian cities he will have to send spies there. In Moscow, where they know that their own press and that of more than one European country hushes everything that the Government wants hushed. Soviet statesmen believe, not unnaturally, that they are being smart by sending spies everywhere...
...Peanut Vendor (El Manisero), with its hot, catchy rhythm between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between...
Border Terriers, never shown in the U. S. before, were not recognized as a breed in England until 1920. They are smart fox-hunting dogs and get their name because they come from the borderland of Scotland and England. They are small, hard-looking terriers, a foot high and weighing about 15 Ib. A West Point cadet who showed three of them had the class to himself. Best was Blacklyne Lady...
Winter Garden, Manhattan, in the Passing Show of 1023. She was born on Tenth Avenue, Manhattan, and her real name is Nancy La Hiff; she worked into show business by smart acting in amateur nights at vaudeville theatres. "Ducky," protested Mrs. La Hiff nightly, "is it necessary for you to kick your limbs so high in Mr. Shubert's shows?" Nancy Carroll continued to kick high. After three weeks in the chorus she was given a leading role. She made her way in Hollywood because she was intelligent. She is married to Playwright John Kirkland (Frankie & Johnnie...