Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majestic in his great robes, Pope Pius XI entered, silently, paused before each of the kneeling children, allowed each to kiss his apostolic ring. Not until he stood opposite small smart Louis Osborne did the Holy Father speak...
Though sound enough in a business way, the Principality of Monaco was racked again last week by political strife, surprising in view of the fact that last fall the Prince of Monaco's smart daughter Charlotte was announced to have settled His Highness' quarrel with certain political factions...
Miserable Smart Children. How to deal with superior-minded school children is a mighty problem for mental hygienists. Dr. Leta Sletter Hollingworth of Columbia defined the smart child's plight. If he is kept in a grade with ordinary children his own age, he does his school work so swiftly that he must idle and daydream, bad habits both. If he is advanced to the grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting...
...late Major Henry Lee Higginson needed more than their winter engagements to support their families. They were tired, too, of ponderous scores and strangely enough they found Society in the same mood. The Popular Concerts, soon shortened to Pops, caught on. It was considered Bohemian and ever so smart to roll up to Music Hall on one's bicycle, to sit without gloves, sip a lemonade just flavored with claret and tap one's foot in time to a mazurka. Such goings-on had even the sanction of the late Mrs. Jack Gardner, Boston's leading lioness. Mrs. Gardner...
...Pittsburgh one James Plunkett, 52, panhandler, begged Harry Westbrook, 90, for a dime. Westbrook gave him 25?. Plunkett demanded more. Westbrook took off Plunkett's eyeglasses, felled him with a smart blow...