Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merged with Charles D. Barney & Co. to become Smith, Barney & Co.), Geoff Smith was born in the Kitten-house Square section, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, where he was a member of the Porcellian Club, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Dechert Price, Smith & Clark, and joined the Navy in World War II, where he rose to captain and procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation for the Legion of Merit says that he saved the Government "billions." Says Smith...
...Skid, Grable's alcoholic husband, Dan Dailey is an engaging dancing partner. The moral seems to be: forced to choose between booze and Grable, what man would be fool enough to want to drink...
...Crimson scored its second goal in 8:50 of the fourth quarter when speedy Jon Spivak, playing at the right inside position, tapped the ball past the Tech goalie. Six minutes later, Charlie Weiss, Spivak's partner on the revised first line that played most of the second half, blasted in an angle shot from the right outside position...
...Dancing Partner. Once Moncada sent him out with $75,000 to pay off people whose property had been damaged by the rampaging campaigns of the famed revolutionary Augusto Sandino. Moncada, hearing that most of the money was going into Tacho's pockets, called him back. "Listen, Tacho," said Moncada, "you are not even a thief; you are a pickpocket. Get out of here." Somoza landed on his feet, became a consul in Costa Rica. Soon he was back in Managua, as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs...
...mentalist" who finds, to his embarrassment, that his clairvoyant gift is genuine. He feels so helplessly responsible for the catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his remarkable powers. He disappears into the depths of Los Angeles, leaving his fiancee (Virginia Bruce) to marry his partner (Jerome Cowan). Just as he could predict, Virginia dies in childbirth and Jerome makes money hand over fist...