Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chamber, small, smart Mayor Eugene Swartz and his suave police chief, Millard Matovina, braced themselves against a fluted column for the onslaught. Only 30 or so in the crowd managed to get into the room, but they could hear the ominous rumble of the rest outside...
Died. Charles Hanson Towne, 72, litterateur, minor poet (Manhattan) and editor (the old Smart Set, McClure's, Harper's Bazaar); after long illness; in Manhattan...
Perle Mesta's parties are neither so fancy nor so noisy as Mrs. Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
...Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt El said it was right smart...
...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...