Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugh Gibson was known as a routine "career man," 19 years in the State Department's service, member of at least half a dozen smart clubs in various European capitals, and generally the sort of man who works hard around an embassy, golfs and dines, sees his tailor often?and is forgotten when a "Big Man" must be found to go out and negotiate for his country...
Meanwhile the Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich Christian Charles, a Major General, was Grand Master of the Order of St. John. He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.* Ostensibly this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg...
That two such smart-chart publications should have thus jointly trifled with the bachelorhood of M. Doumergue seemed, to Frenchmen in the U. S., inexcusable...
Impressed, Magistrate Glatzmeyer did not fine Mr. McCaffery for driving on the wrong side of the street, predicted a brilliant career as a lawyer for McCaffery Junior, smart son of a smart father...
...Going to Monte? Really? You know it is FRIGHTFULLY passé." Such has been the comment of smart folk, for several seasons, to anyone who proposed a visit to once smart Monte Carlo. Of course the crowds at the Casino tables have been as large as ever-but unfashionable. What to do? The families of Blanc, Radziwill, Bonaparte, chief stockholders in the Casino, have been puzzling for some time. They are now trying an experiment: Miss Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is very large, very mirthful, very well known in the U. S. colony at Paris. There must, naturally...