Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smart and self-sufficient...
...world has seen what can be done in this way. If the new French cabinet will insist on doing things slowly and correctly through the usual diplomatic channels, France will find itself in the position of a man who decides to drive leisurely down speeding Broadway in a smart brougham only to wonder at being the last of a long line before the box-office...
Messrs. Nathan and Mencken have directed their editorial gaze upon the Universities; in the February issue of "The Smart Set" is the fourth of a series of articles on "The Higher Learning in America". It is written by Mr. Gilbert Seldes, a Harvard man, and, naturally enough, is an article on our own University...
...traditional rite? If so, such tradition should be stopped in the name of the law if not of morality. For those future leaders in the republic thus to be wanton law-breakers is bad practice. They have shown that they are able to do it, and are; therefore, as smart as the folks who dispense their home brew. Freshmen have more than done justice to themselves in that respect. But the burning question--the terrible question that confronts the scores who have taken their first taste of intemperate joy is: are they resigned to enslave themselves to the degrading life...
...York paper, have a new worry. A member of this well known organization, while driving in New York City with his brother, an Elk, was hauled up short for speeding. The policeman, spotting with satisfaction at present Key, launched himself upon a situperous lecture concerning college "Smart Alecs" who cared for no one's life but their own, and was on the point of handing out a summons when the Elk button on the second chap caught his eye. To the joy and amazement, of the motorists the atmosphere changed at once and the summons was withdrawn with a smile...