Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish circles it was rumored that her marriage, although announced for next September, is about to take place secretly in Madrid. That the Dictator-Bridegroom can compel the Spanish press to keep his most obvious secrets was shown, last week, when he suppressed for three days a newspaper at smart San Sebastian which had dared to print a photograph revealing that the calves & ankles of Senorita Mercedes Castellanos are chunky and unslender-as are those of Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan (see Afghanistan...
Next morning smart folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World...
...smart set of Des Moines (pop. 148,900), biggest city in Iowa, often amuse themselves with a parlor game: a modern variation of famed tiddledywinks. An ashtray is placed on the floor. The players (any number from two to eight), equipped with dimes and quarters, squat. In turn, they use their quarters to try to flick their dimes into the ashtray in a graceful arc. It is a game requiring firm thumbs, keen eyes. It was invented by that skillful player, John Cowles, 29, who is to Des Moines what a dynamo is to a powerhouse...
...silly and terrible; their names had a dark and foolish clamor-My Pain Sheltering Beneath Your Hand, Here Am I. Passing them at last, to look at Sir William Orpen's bitterly melodramatic The Black Cap, or the clever work of 14-year-old Joan Manning Saunders, the smart happy people imitated Premier Baldwin's solemn headshake. "Dreadful . . ." they said, "a shocking thing...
PARIS BOUND - Smart fun among the younger epigrammarians (TIME...