Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more; they disappear into pipes. "Here's how they build a road in there," said a numbed South Carolinian. "First come bulldozers tearing up the ground. Then come more machines smoothing it down again. Then comes the tar; then come the rollers. It all moves at a good smart pace. Behind comes a little man walking along, painting a white line...
...novel) is a sure smash hit. Yet it is a hit at the expense of being a good play. Most of the Marquand virtues are discernible, but in Paul Osborn's version they are doled out in the smallest of small change. The whole thing has a smart, professional veneer, but it has no real psychological or satiric impact...
...sportsman and the man who wants people to think he's a sportsman, these suspenders are just the thing. Here we have depicted hounds and hunters in smart color leaping over fences, and no matter where the gentleman who wears them may be, he will be surrounded with an air of the landed aristocracy. Men of distinction can buy these fine suspenders for only $5.00 at J. AUGUST, in the Square only...
...colonel spared the Ministry of Fuel no expense in redecorating Scarcroft. A spacious new dining room was added, with fluorescent lighting. There was a smart new boardroom, deep red carpeting to cover the floor, a new $1,500 clock in the lodge tower and a $420 television set in the private staff dining room...
Britain's Princess Margaret arrived in Paris for a busy four days of footloose fun. At the Hertford Hospital charity ball, she mingled with the best of the smart set, danced with Paul Auriol, son of the French President, and also came face to face with a brash American custom. A young Army civilian employee from Chicago threw royal protocol aside, introduced himself and asked for the next dance. Margaret was diplomatically delighted" to meet him, but, she said, "I'm terribly sorry, I seem to be booked up just now." The next evening at the home...