Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Paris told that the stand taken by the Papacy has already shorn Editors Daudet and Maurras of perhaps half their Roman Catholic supporters. For example, the smart, swagger group of young Royalist bravos who used to be known as Les Camelots du Roi, "The King's Newsboys," because they sold copies of L'Action Française have deserted in numbers approaching a stampede...
...solace of many a dowager at Paris is the ubiquitous gigolo, a male who lurks in smart dancing places and is ready, for a modest tip, to offer gallantries to ladies whose age or ugliness induces them to buy what others can command...
...ornate and sumptuous new Casino at San Remo, Italian Riviera, has sprung rapidly into smart, international favor, since it was recently authorized by Signor Benito Mussolini as the sole resort in Italy where roulette wheels may twirl (TIME...
...nights after the small, snug tea Dorothy Thompson looked even less the curt, mannish newshawk which some imagine her as she danced, in a low-cut gown, with Sinclair Lewis at a smart Berlin night bar. Before the week was out, however, she was indubitably in Moscow and remained there during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Bolshevist regime. The exhaustive report of petite correspondent Dorothy Thompson has now reached the U. S. in its entirety and appeared in the papers which she serves. No sooner was it off the press, however, than a similar...
Threatened with this immediate possibility and with damage suits impending from her producers, Miss Eagels gave no indications of alarm or even of concern. She stayed in Manhattan at the smart Hotel Elysee and paid a day's visit to the country place which belongs to her husband, Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, one-time Yale football back...