Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhode Island. In his attempt to regain the Senate seat and the high place in Washington society he lost two years ago, Peter Goelet Gerry, Democratic nominee, had the advantage of a smart wife who can speak French. Mrs. Gerry (once Mrs. George Washington Vanderbilt) campaigned for her husband by going into the homes of French-Canadian textile workers in the Blackstone and Pawtuxet valleys to speak to them in their own language. Adroitly she shut the door behind her on newsmen who sought to quote her French. Nominee Gerry's opponent, Republican Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf, raised...
...Department of Commerce, Col. Woods gave a lively imitation of Washington's Busiest Man. His telephone rang at the rate of once every two minutes. Government officials from the Postmaster General down to the Chairman of the Shipping Board called to offer assistance. He hired Edward L. Bernays, smart Manhattan pressagent, to publicize the Government's work. Into newsreel microphones he preached a gospel of "sprucing up the home" now instead of later. As an aid to public construction he cited $450,000,000 worth of state bond issues which voters can pass upon on Election...
...Indian delegates were in London last week, already quarreling among themselves. The more exalted contingent of maharajas and rajas held a secret session in St. James's Palace presided over by H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, famed some years ago as "Mr. A" when a smart Englishwoman worked the badger game on him in Paris (TIME...
...smart Jacksonvillains triumphed. After four 18-hole rounds (par, 56) blond J. K. Scott who says he scores from 75 to 80 on real golf courses won the $2.000 first prize for men with 223. Mrs. J. E. Rankin who won the $2,000 for the best lady was from Jacksonville too. Her score was 241. Putter Newton Coggins from Jacksonville and Mrs. R. L. Stone of Chattanooga were runners...
Left alone in the field (save for the visits of Manhattan's Metropolitan) the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company opened its season with a sold-out house and a smart list of boxholders which included names like Curtis, Biddle, Lorimer and Pianist Josef Hofmann. Aïda was the first opera with Italian Tenor Aroldo Lindi, Soprano Anne Roselle, Contralto Cyrena Van Gordon, Conductor Emil Mlynarski. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame followed last week with Mary Garden again casting her curious spell as the pale, questioning little juggler, Baritone Chief Caupolican (a South American Indian) as the kindly, understanding monk...