Word: smartest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once more the patriarch of song and dancing has operated on his current show. New blood for its failing veins he has purchased, new cooling costumes for the chorus, new backgrounds, new tunes. Since this year's Follies was one of the smartest ever staged, these changes seemed scarcely necessary. They advance the show's excellence sufficiently to make it worth while on second visit...
...type of nocturnal resort, frankly modeled after the Embassy Club of London and intended to cultivate that delectable type of night life so familiar to readers of Author Michael Arlen's novel The Green Hat-iridescent conversation, light drinking (presumably, since intoxication was to be frowned upon), the smartest dancing, a maitre d'hotel who would be at once "a master of tact and a genius for cooking." The entire atmosphere of the place would be "gay, spirited, diverting"; above all, "decent." Their club would be "The Embassy Club of New York," to open in October...
...London papers commended the President for sending his old hat to be re-blocked for Easter. They animadverted upon that glorious Duke of Devonshire who appeared at the smartest spring races year after year in the same hat. He kept his hat for comfort, not economy. Finally, 24 lady friends sent him 24 new hats on the same day. He accepted the gifts, never wore the hats...
...GUARDSMAN - Some of the smartest playing and discussion of the season, depending on the ability of a great actor to act so well as to seduce his own wife...
Concentrating on the conversation -which is steadily diverting and occasionally dazzling-one is led to suspect that Mr. Maugham, retiring after a particularly amusing dinner party, stopped Jong enough between his collar and his braces to jot down the smartest of the evening's causerie. On second thought, the play is altogether too smoothly starched for that. Mr. Maugham must have written it in a full dress suit...