Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally one of vaudeville's "Willson Sisters," Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...
Travelers, in the know, who as a rule keep several years ahead of the Baedecker tourists and Raymond-Whitcomb enthusiasts have found Losinj. Trau (Petronius's Satyricon) Korcula. Hvar and Dubrovnik-Kupari in Jugoslavije as smart as Brioni and Cap Antibes and without, the sourness of the Lido...
...benefits they believed such a major change in U. S. Dry policy would produce. Much of their testimony was repetitious. All seemed agreed on these points: 1) enforcement is going from bad to worse, with no honest hope of improvement; 2) with speakeasies replacing saloons, and rapidly .becoming the smart place for ladies' luncheons, all official regulation of liquor and its sale has disappeared; 3) business and industry have not been benefited by Prohibition; 4) politics has been corrupted; 5) professional Drys and 'leggers are in effect working together to prevent any change in the present system...
...Rocked and resounded with gallant cries of "Hear, hear!" from members of all three parties as Conservative Captain Victor Cazalet, smart socialite and admirer of U. S. rich folk, proposed a bill which both male and female M. P.'s think will please women. If passed, a woman who marries a foreigner will have the option of remaining a subject of George V, instead of being forced to embrace the husband's nationality. U. S. women already have this right. ¶ Gloomed at a statement by Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson that "after thorough consideration" the Labor Government...
...generally accepted is this illegal sport that last week advertisements introducing to the U. S. the Austin, smart diminutive vehicle, using a caricature of a bantam cock for an emblem, carried a bright series of colored pictures showing five crises in the course of a cockfight (TIME, March...