Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing better than to crack one another's skulls. Two mass bashes over the Easter and Whitsuntide weekends had only whetted the teen sects' appetites for more, as excited word spread from London's Mecca Ballrooms and myriad Soho record clubs that Hastings would be the smart place to be on the long three-day Bank Holiday weekend at the beginning of August...
...SERVANT. Promoting country matters in a smart London town house, Dirk Bogarde gives a highly polished performance as a vicious "gentleman's gentleman" who corrupts his master...
...SERVANT. Promoting country matters in a smart London town house, Dirk Bogarde gives a highly polished performance as a vicious "gentleman's gentleman" who corrupts his master...
...student and teacher at Glasgow, Alexander came under the influence of John S. Smart, who, along with Josiah Quincy Adams "knocked a hole" in the idea, held by almost everyone in 1900, that Shakespeare had been uneducated and had begun his career by revising other people's plays. "How an uneducated man could rewrite someone's plays I don't know," he said, and then began hunting on his desk for books to demonstrate the complete change of critical opinion...
...When Smart died, Alexander published the chapters of his unfinished book, Shakespeare: Truth and Tradition in 1928. In 1929, "to consolidate the work of Smart," he published his own book, Shakespeare's Henry VI and Richard III, the first full-length refutation of the century-old thesis that various parts of the tetralogy had been written by Greene, Nashe, Peele and Marlowe, as well as by Shakespeare. In 1938 he published Shakespeare's Life...