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...wand which resembles a swagger stick. He wishes readers to understand how little effort it has caused him to be referred to as the polished Parisian diplomat, as the brilliant, the famed, the witty author of Ouvert la Nuit, Fermé la Nuit and many a shorter turn in the smartest smart-charts...
Christie's, smartest of London auction rooms, buzzed eagerly last week, as an auctioneer rapped to announce that he would sell the 61 ½%-carat diamond "Golden Dawn," since 1913 the property of its disc verer Captain C. R. Lucas, who found it near Kimberly, South Africa...
...colors." The following, of the new models, have features which may be termed new: Buick. "The artistic upholstery and interiorware patterns in the beautiful new Fisher Bodies for 1927, were created especially for Buick . . . the finishes on the new Buicks are in Coronation tones, the year's smartest custom effects . . . for the first time a vacuum- cleaned crank case to protect closed car passengers from engine fumes." Cadillac. Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor...
...iced liquors at such a time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl in the cotton dress the other side...
...college man," Mr. Goldwyn continued, "but I wish I had a college education. The college man of today is the smartest member of the population. Ask him or any one else. But he cannot know everything. He never realizes how much he doesn't know until he gets to be about forty...