Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smart folk motoring down to Biarritz, at the close of Deauville's "fortnight," had two droll little incidents to tell about...
Last week the banknotes appeared. Smart newsmen recognized Sir John's model-wife. Irishmen studied their money. They learned that Lady Lavery is not in her girlhood, neither is she Irish. She was the widow of Mr. Edward Livingston Trudeau of New York when Sir John married her 18 years ago. And she is from Chicago, U. S. A. Irishmen became vexed...
...first hole at Brae Burn is 337 yards with a brook at the depth of the fairway, just below the green. Smart golfer', use an iron from the tee for a long pitch to the green rather than take a chance on driving into the brook. When Jones and Perkins went out to play their match, Perkins took an iron out, Jones took a wooden club−and a six for the hole to Perkins' four. Perkins was one up until the fourth; then Jones evened the match. At the end of the morning round, Jones...
From head to foot this man has upon him the effects of a deep perusal of Gumbel's "Kollege Klothes." He hasn't missed a trick. There is the smart felt, a copy of the Knox model, but you get it for $3.73 instead of $10.00. Just walt till it gets wet (or at least wetter). There is the snap on tie, so trick that you know at a glance only an expert factory girls' fingers could have tied it. But then she might have been his girl; who can tell. The coat and pants have a brother...
...medical schools draw much condemnation. They give, the angry women declare, their medical degrees too facilely, particularly the highest, the Igakuhakushi. Any medical student who offers a smart thesis apparently can get the degree. Clinical experience is little required and some of those Igakuhakushi have been acting like scoundrels. They charge high fees; they write demoralizing articles on sex matters; they sign advertisements; they give testimonials. The women demand that the medical schools make their degree requirements more professional, that some organization function actively like the American Medical Association to reprove and reprimand unethical Japanese doctors...