Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long day of conferences and conversations. The hotels teemed with men, money, moonshine, political and religious arguments. For an hour in the afternoon, the Nominee" stood bareheaded, smiling, bowing, smart-cracking, in an automobile that moved about town at a snail's pace...
...have soon the University's riders in action should find their numbers increased, if the large attendance at the Harvard Yale polo games of last year be any index. Polo as a spectator's game is in the curious position of being over advertised by the clothiers of the smart set publications, and under appreciated or oftener unknown among those who find much of real beauty in other sports. One is glad that polo can be played and seen literally at Harvard. One is gladder that in this sport the factor of lost time has been erased...
...stands for all that is masterly in criminal detection. So much so, in fact, that the best-selling detective stories involve Scotland Yard; the second best contain the word murder in the title; and the rest trail far behind. Such are the findings of the American "Crime Club,"* a smart bookselling racket conceived by Nelson Doubleday, smart son of a smart father. As an advertisement, he mails to club members or prospective members a pink sheet of mystery-story news luridly modeled after the gumchewer dailies. But it is mailed to no gumchewers; rather to portly smokers of Corona Coronas...
...inhabitants of New York City, ''Diamond LiP' means only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...
...above quotation was last week printed as coming word for word from the mouth of President Calvin Coolidge. Credit for this scoop goes to the London Sketch and to a smart, egotistical young man named Beverley Nichols, who led British readers to believe that President Coolidge had spoken those very words. Perhaps Mr. Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American...