Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Dawes, ever brisk, had written a smart speech. He had written briefly what he had to say, written briefly what the Hooverizers had been trying to say for four months. Something happened to his delivery, however, and the huge audience missed his sharpness as he said: "The real and overshadowing issue . . . is the maintenance of prosperity...
Prominent among rustic oddities displayed was a small, red brick cottage just completed by the Chancellor, who has personally laid each brick. All through the summer he has troweled vigorously, whenever he could snatch the time, assisted by his hodcarrying daughters, Sarah, Diana. By thus bricklaying, smart "Winnie" Churchill has achieved two objectives. His embonpoint is somewhat reduced; and. what with elections coming on, he has reaped much vote-getting publicity among the myriads of laboring Britons who have seen him troweling and slathering mortar in the "picture papers." Since the whimsical Chancellor has actually carried his stunt...
Even enemies of Signor Mussolini will admit that the above is a smart defense of his much criticised technique of curbing the press. Even smarter and more cogent were his words as he launched into a critique of sensational journalistic methods...
Hungarian ladies, sipping their tea at smart Gerbauld's, or strolling beneath Budapest's pepper trees, are now perfumed with the lesser creations of local perfumers Hungarian, Austrian or German...
Because General George Washington fought the Revolutionary War to a smart finish, Americans thought he would make a good peacetime President, nor were they disappointed. Precisely similar was the reasoning of Chinese, last week, when they chose the first President of the new Chinese Nationalist Government (TIME, May 2, 1927). Naturally and inevitably their choice fell upon the Nationalist Revolution's doughty "Man of Victory," famed Marshal Chiang Kai-shek...