Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Editor-elect Arthur H. Samuels journeyed to California to hear Publisher William Randolph Hearst's wishes for Smart Set's next transformation. Publisher Hearst has bought back Smart Set after a two-year interim in which James R. Quirk, owner of successful Photoplay, failed to popularize it as "the young women's magazine." From 1924 to 1928 Mr. Hearst put Smart Set through its "confession" phase. Now he thinks it might be made into a sophisticated smart-chart for women in and about Manhattan...
...undeniable hints that Mr. Shaw could be quite sentimental if he could take his tongue out of his cheek long enough. But that would not be playing the part he has set aside for himself in all of his plays. So, in this play he ends with his usual quirk. There is a discourse on the evils of middle class morality, the verbose Doolittle is led to the noose of matrimony, Higgins returns to his phonetics, and Eliza remains a "good" girl...
...this last foresight which took him last month to Washington, D. C., and, by a quirk of human affairs, to the borderland of another phase of the future. The Senators who asked him to come and tell about Radio Corp.'s plan for selling its communications business to International Telephone & Telegraph Co., were far less interested in his business ideas than in the effect which those ideas, publicly expressed, might have upon Owen D. Young's chances of becoming the Democratic party's candidate for President...