Word: smarter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome young man was an officer in the Imperial German Navy when war broke out. He was Count Alfred Niezyzhowski, known to the smarter Berlin set as "Al" or "Nizzy." He was not really a "Bosch,"but a fine gentleman from the Polish part of East Prussia; and his uncle, Baron Hengelmuller, Austrian Ambassador to the U. S., had long been the popular dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington...
...louder ties and smarter socks...
...Harvard men may be smarter but they certainly aren't any wiser", was the opinion of John Skehen, yard man and gate-keeper for nearly half a century, as he reminisced, on the University undergraduates of 40 years ago. "They cut up more but they don't enjoy it half as much as the boys back in the eighties...
...Holy Grail appears as the pivot of the play. It turns up in the dirty East Side nest of a gang of crooks. One crook steals it from another. Unfortunately for him the smarter swindler's girl who is deeply religious learns through her priest the identity of the vessel The conflict between them, falling slightly at a rather conventional climax, provides the drama...
...better than a birdie, one smarter than an eagle, and a world's record goes down in the archives for George Aulbach, professional at the Winthrop Golf Club, Boston, as the story of a single shot. Aulbach shot the 335-yard fifth hole in one, the longest recorded single stroke from...