Word: clevernessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simply and factually told the story of Swindleress Hanau is that of a clever woman who sold dull people worthless stock by promising them dividends of from 15 to 80 per cent. She went into bankruptcy, last week, with assets of 22,000 francs ($858) and known liabilities of 219,000,000 ($8,541,000); but even a hasty investigation showed that she had probably mulcted widows, small town businessmen and country priests of not less than half a billion francs ($19,500,000). This stupendous swindle was carried on from Paris through branch offices in almost every provincial city...
Philip Barry wrote Paris Bound, a light cocktail of adultery and wit; like that fine play, Holiday begins frivolously. The situation: a girl, Julia Seton, introduces to her glum father, her charming sister and her drunken brother, the clever, adventurous and successful young man whom she wishes to marry. In the second act there is a party at which the engagement is announced; and Linda, the charming sister, invites friends whom she likes better than the correct friends of her family to a private party of her own which she arranges, with bottles of whiskey, in what used...
...Wyckoff made his debut in the district, getting a job as messenger for a firm of brokers. Clever lad, apt student, he was in due course a broker on his own, functioning in a number of partnerships, promoting innumerable enterprises, among them the Emerson Phonograph Co. By 1907 when he started to publish the Ticker Magazine he had acquired a reputation for smartness and a considerable fortune...
Grand opera was the dream of this girl from Detroit. Between vocalizings, however, she found it necessary to get a job, and she got one in the office of blithe, clever Editor Wyckoff. She became his stenographer and secretary...
...Foremost of these is LaGuardia of New York, an irregular Republican, the smartest, most industrious gadfly. He knows parliamentary practice and can tie the House in knots with his motions and points of order. He rarely wins a fight but he always puts on a good show and his clever arguments attract considerable backing...