Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Card to the Count's. The new host was dapper millionaire Don Carlos de Beistegui y Iturbi, a mysterious bachelor often called "The Count of Monte Cristo" by romantic gossipists. Months before the party, the international smart set whispered excitedly that the guest list would read like the Almanach de Gotha. To be invited to Don Carlos' shindig became a distinction fervently desired by the gilded socialites of the continents. Black markets sprang up in most of the world's fashionable capitals offering cards to the ball for as much as $500 each. Jacques Path, Dior...
...passed. "I wish the damned thing hadn't turned out to be so successful," he lamented. Snapped his old employer, the Sun-Times: "Racetrack operators don't cut people into their profits without a reason . . . if Mulroy doesn't understand this he's not smart enough to be an assistant to the governor...
Personality: Sturdy (5 ft. 7 in., 165 Ibs.), jovial, harddriving, outspoken. In the field, eats and sleeps little. Though sociable, likes to spend his first hour after waking in the morning in solitary thought and with a good smoke. Like most French generals, has a flair for smart uniforms, gloves and boots. Speaks heavily accented English...
Died. Harry Hervey, 50, explorer, author (The Damned Don't Cry, The Veiled, Fountain) and screen writer (Shanghai Express, Road to Singapore), who, at 16, sold his first story to H. L. Mencken's Smart Set, produced a popular novel every year between 1923 and 1933; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Giant American silkworms may not be any dumber than their Japanese colleagues, but current researches in the University biology laboratories reveal that they aren't very smart...