Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday was the big day of the year for the Yard janitors, who spent all their time answering questions and directing trunk maneuvers. In their opinion their new charges were "smart boys, every one of them," and "an intelligent bunch; they didn't cause a bit of trouble...
Hostess Chase's scripts are full of chitsy-chatsy on what the smart little child will wear, how to get along as a weekend guest, the importance of wearing hats that please men. Included in the verbal menu is a resume of Miss Chase's gay activities since she was last on the air-luncheon with Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolf), cocktails with Condé Nast, dinner with the Grand Duchess Marie...
...time audiences. Now it moves along so briskly that sponsors are thinking of letting the general public gape while the Luncheons are in progress. Only outsiders permitted to join the pressmen and sponsors' pals who now attend the Luncheons are those who write in on very smart stationery. On no such stock was one of the letters Miss Chase received from a Midwest housewife, who wrote: "You and your mother must both reek of cigarette smoke. Such carryings...
Last week he had many plans for Hunter. What the college lacks in swank, it makes up in vigor. Hunter girls, mostly Jewesses who grew up on the sidewalks of New York, go to college to study. Smart (they must pass stiff entrance tests) and hardworking, they often help support their families while attending college. Many Hunter girls become public-school teachers; some, Macy's salesgirls. But most of them (relatively more than at such a college as Vassar) will be housewives...
...almost half of his 79 years, E. (for Evander) Berry Wall set a smart sartorial pace as an international clotheshorse. He was called the best-dressed American in Europe, the King of the Dudes. He was reported to possess 285 pairs of pants, 5,000 custom-tailored neckties. It was rumored that he changed his ties six times a day. His conduct was motivated by a great principle: find out what suits you and always wear it. Berry Wall usually wore capes and coats of horse-blanket plaid, high horse-collars cinched with lush Ascot cravats. Sometimes he changed into...