"Smart set" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stunts, if you mean in the smart set. Jump about on all fours and pick up a woman's umbrella with your teeth, and bark. Anything else would be easier for you among chic people, where your ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... carelessly caused X-ray dermatitis, a skin disease of cancerous nature, and that she has also been rendered a nervous wreck through the effects of the rays. Simultaneously with filing the suit she left home and entered a private hospital. Mrs. Close is one of the most popular hostesses in the smart set, and her ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... guests to swell people. I wouldn't meet the right kind if I lived in a hotel, even with a first-rate chaperon. I know, for I came to Monte Carlo with an Australian friend, for a few days on my way to England. It's no use being at a resort if you don't get into the smart set, is it?" ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... which means that their back yard was bounded on the west by the smart set—and that's as far as there's any need of going. The girl comes from 'Frisco and is an earthquake orphan. Hence the governess stunt. As for young Marston, he'd been chucked out of college, tried out for a failure ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... Hollister's salary was but a little over three thousand, and at times they had hard work to make both ends meet. Ethel attended a fashionable school and hardly realized what the family sacrificed for her. She made many friends among the wealthy girls of the smart set. Thanks to her mother's skill and taste she was enabled to dress beautifully, but youth is thoughtless and she was just a little too self centered to see that her parents were depriving themselves ...
— How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl • Irene Elliott Benson |
