Word: clevernessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are one (1) Ford, letterd up with clear and not so clever slogans, and the Hasty Pudding initiations. Although they are both much out-of-place in a supposedly enlightened institution like Harvard, they are testify that some undergraduates are still children after...
...that player to break the bank. Or he might be willing to pay several times the face value for a Pottery card that would help him build up a Pottery monopoly. A smart Stock Exchange operator might be a tremendous success at the game, which resolves itself largely into clever trading. On the other hand, the better the game becomes as a game, the less effective it becomes as a course in finance. It does illustrate, in an elementary manner, the fact that a bank can issue more notes than it has gold to support and also the fact that...
...spent. The campaign was directed almost entirely by the company's President George Washington Hill. Born of rich parents, Mr. Hill is regularly mentioned by Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane as one case where a rich man's son has not been a loafer. Silent, clever, he has originated many an advertising idea. Last year he saw a fat woman munching what he presumed to be either a sweet or a pickle while nearby was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. Thenceforth came a sales-slogan ("Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet") on which millions were spent...
...educated man runs to fraud," he once said, "while the uneducated person is more given to crimes of brutality and passion. The crime that interests me the most does not interest the public; for me, I love to unravel a really clever fraud...
...very clever fraud that first brought international recognition to Gaston Bayle, a stupid fraud that caused his death. Five years ago one Emil Fradin, a shrewd peasant lad, dug up a number of curiously inscribed brick and clay tablets in a field at Glozel, France. Immediately the "Glozel Finds" attracted world wide attention. French archeologists announced that they were important relics of the Stone Age, wrote monographs. British and French illustrated weeklies printed elaborate facsimiles of the Glozel tablets, compared them in importance to Egypt's Rosetta Stone, Britain's Piltdown skull. Gaston Bayle was not impressed. With...