Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young woman dodged through the cordon of police at the palace gate, sprinting for the portal. She was Miss Prudence ("Cherub") Trotter, smart enfant terrible, daughter of august Sir Victor Murray Coutts Trotter, Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras. She brandished an appeal. It besought His Majesty to urge upon Parliament in his Speech from the Throne immediate passage of the bill giving votes to all women over 21. Miss Trotter, just 20, evidently did not know that the boon she craved had already been drafted into the text of the Speech from the Throne. Soon...
...novel (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927), wherein a girl who was reared to be snoopy about sex becomes a cosmopolitan esthete. The soon forgotten fame of The Hard-Boiled Virgin rested on such smart remarks as: "In Georgia, no lady was supposed to know she was a virgin until she ceased...
Chief of the industrial hives of Spain is Barcelona, where smart Hispano-Suiza motor cars are made, where boulevards are broad and new, where huge docks and sprawling factories are ever busy. Last week 70% of the workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...
Engaged. Miss Dorothy James Smart, blonde, beautiful model for hundreds of clothing ads; to Edward Lyman Bill, Manhattan publisher (The Music Trade Review, Talking Machine World, Carpet & Rug News...
...George Pierce Baker's famed playwright's class at Harvard to achieve technique. In 1916 at the tiny Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Mass., his first production came to life, a one-acter, Bound East for Cardiff. Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan, then editors of the rascally Smart Set, accepted three plays for publication. Critic Nathan, notorious, noisy, can always say, truthfully, he recognized the good wine of genius before the grape was ripe. He still ballyhoos O'Neill frantically...