Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noticed by a smart observer for the Associated Press, which has eyes even in remote Kabul, was a curious device emblazoned on the red or "independence" stripe. Two sheaths of rye encircle a chain of golden mountains over which rise the nation's Star and the royal Sun. Thus is symbolized the popular title of King Amanullah, who is known to millions of his subjects simply as "The Peace...
...some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology, migration, marriage, and political and social science. Though President Hainisch's hobby is milk cows, he is even now industriously and perhaps dutifully at work upon a new tome, to be entitled The Theory of Competition. Austrians acclaim him the smart son of a smart mutter...
...healthy." But there were all too many cases of functional disturbances caused by mental strain, worry, improper living, neglect of personal hygiene. Some men had decayed teeth, others poor eyesight, improper glasses; some were under weight, others over weight. Men bright enough to have become Dennison executives were not smart enough to eat properly, sleep enough, avoid constipation, take exercise. President Dennison's example and the medical examiner's urgency made the executives start to remedy their physical defects and errors of living...
...suave and lovely widow of the old school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus parents-which is all very well till he falls in love with her. He thereupon escapes to Africa; she and her brood, un-championed, lapse into their hectic scattered existence at smart European hotels, in the feverish wake of this parent or that...
...printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short, S. S. Van Dine is Willard Huntington Wright, critic and Smart Set's onetime editor, whose history may be found in any copy of Who's Who. He lives in Manhattan. "Recently," says he, "a bright reporter, who had read too much, oh, far too much! Sherlock Holmes, conceived the brilliant idea of visiting my home (I live...