Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Mayor LaGuardia had not granted it a police escort, the coach ignored traffic lights. At Fifth Avenue & 30th Street, site of the old Holland House whence Tobacconist Sorg started his run, Mrs. Dibble set a smart pace. The Valiant clattered through Manhattan traffic to South Ferry in 29 minutes, sailed across to Staten Island, changed horses, took the Tottenville Ferry to Perth Amboy...
...start another research department. Finding that his real-estate studies had far more than local interest, he launched Real Estate Analysts, Inc. as an advisory service to banks, insurance companies, real-estate firms. Though Researcher Wenzlick says the idea for his boom pamphlet was taken to Simon & Schuster, that smart firm claims it went to Roy Wenzlick as the leading U. S. authority on real-estate trends...
With "the almost incredible circulation of books in the Soviet Union . . . before us as a glorious example," smart Publisher Victor Gollancz set out in London last week to assuage the appetites of literate Leftists regularly and at small cost. Launched with Mr. Gollancz' customary well-bred ballyhoo was the Left Book Club. To join, readers had only to pledge that they would buy once a month a cheap special edition of a radical or near-radical book which Victor Gollancz, Ltd. would send them. As usual, Victor Gollancz' competitors bit their quills, wished to blazes they had thought...
...hobby, Mrs. Eustis and her friend,, Geneticist Elliott S. Humphrey, bred and trained dogs to patrol the Swiss borders for the customs office and the State police. So impressed was Mrs. Eustis by the "teachability" of German shepherds that in 1928 she wrote an article about her smart dogs for Saturday Evening Post, mentioned the fact that shepherds every day led several thousand blinded German War veterans through city traffic...
...from economic shackles but her impressionistic spelling, sometimes better than right. At Nice she watched people buying carnival costumes of "white Satan." At Antibes she lived in a villa built "by French Pheasants." Among the foreign colony: "There are plenty of scandlous durings going on here." She liked the "Smart and Strudy Swiss." In Belgrade a girl passed her carrying a succulent dish. Said Juanita: "where ever you goth I'll flower it smelled so good I flowered Her 2 blocks." When she writes of herself as leaving "in rout'' she does not mean that her unshakable...