Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smart Parisian children are accustomed to behold at the Chatelet Theatre entrancing "fairy spectacles" called féeriques. Last week, however, this famed theatre-for-tiny-tots was taken over by Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry, who is usually to be found co-starring with his wife, Mile. Yvonne Printemps, in Paris' latest and most urbanely naughty hit. To the Chatelet tripped and strode, last week, Tout Paris to applaud what one critic called "the boyish dignity and so entrancing innocence de notre cher Lindbergh...
Last week however smart Paris applied the stock expression, "Lucky Gaston!" in an entirely new and decorous sense to the President of the Republic, M. Gaston Doumergue...
...slowly mounted the rostrum and then stood mopping his bald head, amid the rattle of handclaps and the roar of "Hoch! Hoch! HOCH!" Dr. Stresemann seemed paler than usual but otherwise utterly "the typical German," plump, correct and full of earnest energy. He, the smart son of a rich brewer, is the great Foreign Minister who has held office while eight German cabinets have fallen, and his ailing kidneys are those which have been of vital interest to all Europe for half a year...
Reparations. The principle on which the U. S. has made debt settlements with France and Italy-"capacity to pay"-was urged by smart Gustav Stresemann as the principle which must guide the new Reparations Revision Commission (TIME...
Only recently have Colombia's adamantine mountains been conquered-by commercial air routes. Today the Scadta ("Colombian-German Air Transport Corporation") headed by smart, efficient Herr P. P. Bauer, is probably the only unsubsidized passenger and freight air service in the world which is showing a really handsome profit. All the great European air lines are state-subsidized and relatively cheap (Paris to Berlin-eight hours-$50). Colombians are glad to pay relatively dear ($200) to be flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according...