Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Provoked, Editor Garvin alsc alluded savagely to the fact that smart Britons often refer to Britannia's editor as that bounder "Filbert Swankau...
...Smart readers began to have qualms when they read the first "Fighting Frankau Editorial": "The incessant toil, the incessant thought which have gone to the making of this 'new paper' . . . have given me joys and pains, compared whereto the joys and pains of mere novel writing seem vapid...
...windows of great shops buckled and burst, streets were strewn with clothing store dummies, some in fetching negligee. Citizens and policemen clung to lamp posts, or flung themselves flat and clung to gutters. Finally even the elite U. S. patrons of smart hotels along the Thames Embankment were made to choke and gasp with streaming eyes, as smoke and soot blew down the chimneys of their bedrooms' open hearths...
...close and sportsmanly friend, Col. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 71, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, who is also Viscount and Baron Lowther, Lord Lieutenant and Gustos Rotulonim* of Cumberland, Colonel of the Westmorland and Cumberland Imperial Yeomanry. Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland, and late Master of the smart Cottesmore Hounds...
...James Joseph Tunney took a year lease on a house in smart Mayfair, London, which they hope to kindle into a literary salon with the aid of George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, et al. Meanwhile, it was reported that retired Fisticuffer Tunney had agreed to fight five British heavyweights in one evening-all, however, for the good of charity...