Word: morganized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Sperry's first demonstration of the gyrocompass was in 1910 aboard the Warship Delaware. The Delaware's chief electrician, a stocky, 24-year-old farm boy from North Carolina named Thomas Alfred Morgan, was of great help in installing the mechanism. Next year Inventor Sperry lured Tom Morgan away from the Navy to install other gyro-compasses for the new Sperry Co. Serious, hard-working Tom Morgan applied himself with such vigor that by 1922 he was vice president, had contributed immeasurably to Sperry's rise to dominance in the field of nautical and aeronautical instruments...
...Wendy van Klettering's (Joan Bennett) imminent wedding, when the bride-to-be floors him by imploring him to scotch the wedding by sabotaging the dress. Aristocratic but penniless Wendy, it appears, is well aware she is being sold down the river, regards her rich fiancé, Mr. Morgan (Alan Mowbray) as a blight. Curson, a married man himself, very properly pays no attention to Wendy's pleas, delivers the dress on time. Thereupon Wendy leaves the bridegroom waiting at the church, goes to work for Curson as a model...
Further skittish developments include sequences in which Morgan, hell-bent on revenge, tries to enjoin Wendy from appearing in Curson's dress show; a ballroom scene where Wendy wins the prize with a Curson creation, having effectively removed her nearest rival by unraveling her dress; a grand finale in which Curson, using the sets from his wife's bankrupt stage show, puts on a musical dress revue which snatches his own business from disaster's verge...
George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests. John Pierpont Morgan was under doctor's orders not to shoot, but opened his Gannochy Moor for guests. Active U. S. shooters included William Woodward, who leased one of the best moors at Clova, and Edmund P. Rogers, who paid $15,000 for the season rights to the moors of both Stobo Castle and Leithen Castle...
...further, created more spectacular characters and lurid scandals than other countries can show, U. S. novelists by & large have stood by, left the field to angry muckrakers, uncritical official biographers, or to such able left-wing analysts as Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons) or Lewis Corey (The House of Morgan...