Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's dapper, smart-cracking Mayor James John Walker, between whom and Mr. Smith little love is left, gave his support to the district leaders. Mr. Curry's election followed. Said Boss Curry: "It's the same old Tammany. ... I have always been opposed to vice and gambling...
...collection ever reached the "P'incess" would be like probing a state secret. Two sure bets: the mechanical monkey sent by Queen Mary, the Cairn terrier pup from Edward of Wales. Even in the U. S. there are babes who ape the styles set by "Baby Betty." Several smart Manhattan stores offer imported "Princess Elizabeth prams" (perambulators) at $250 each. Yellow, however...
...often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands of smart, irrepressible Argentines appeared on the streets, in subways, cafes and at bull fights, wearing pajama pants with coats...
Yellowmen emigrated from Japan to the U. S. too fast, are now excluded. Smart, the sons of Nippon are not making that mistake again in Brazil. A sheaf of figures just released at Rio de Janeiro shows that only 11,231 Japanese immigrated last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done...
...Irishmen like Paul Henry see landscapes of mist-laden perfection and paint them so. Irishmen like famed poet-pointer AE (George William Russell) blithely romanticize the already romantic countryside. Patrick Joseph Tuohy's portraits seem both honest and clear, unusual in a day when much portraiture is either smart fawning or sincerity thwarted by theories. Irishmen, in painting as in most of their literature, evoke a racial charm like an opiate which lulls the cry for pro-founder genius...