Word: ultrasmart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still have something like a year to go before my subscription runs out. If you are any kind of sports I stump you to publish this letter in your Letters page with your 'Ultrasmart" comments, and send me that issue of TIME. You can then discontinue sending me any further issues. Whatever money you save in the deal, buy something for your staff...
King Edward VII would have relished Mae West. Last week the salons of Paris couturiers were heavy with a nostalgia Edwardian or earlier. Sumptuously they ushered in winter modes inspired by the fun which a few ultrasmart Parisiennes have lately had dressing up like the opulent hoyden Miss West created on the stage as Diamond Lil, recreated on the screen as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (TIME...
...towners feel well away from home. And out of a hard-drinking penthouse party scene were developed two scenes of New York night life, new and old. In the new, placed after the old to clear lumpy throats, a gangster gunfight broke up the proceedings in an ultrasmart night-box run by a pansy. In the old-style scene, an evening at Rector's before Prohibition was reproduced to the last sparkle on Diamond Jim Brady's shirtfront and Lillian Russell's dog-collar...
Spain manufactures a few hundred ultrasmart Hispano-Suizas; all her other cars are imported, most of them from the U. S. Last June Prime Minister Berenguer and Minister de Viguri noted that Spain had an adverse trade balance of $91,000,000. They promptly slapped a whopping tariff on all cars. Spain's motor imports promptly evaporated...