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...true Englishmen feel happy. When the Duke of Richmond rides with his hounds, all true Englishmen blow their horn. But the Frenchman holds to his own poet: Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre, and unless he drinks himself, he does not smack his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hoover, Hoover & Herridge | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...would rather have a pious widow's mite than $10,000,000 not given in the proper spirit. The Archbishop would live meanly among the poor, were he not obliged to live sumptuously at Lambeth Palace. The Primate would sail to Jerusalem in a fishing smack like St. Peter's, did not J. P. Morgan insist upon taking him there on the Corsair (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Worthy Primate, Modest Giver | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Flushed with success, Vladimir Raditch rushed to his mother, kissed her twice, smack, smack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Raditch on Raditch | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...office at W. E. Hutton & Co., was a bull. Not until the decline was well under way did he loom as a powerful bear. He is of medium height, fairly heavily built and a little mysterious to all but a few men in Wall Street. He is quiet, says "smack 'em" whenever stocks are mentioned. He has been mentioned as the No. 1 Bear in Case Threshing and is reported to have bet $1,000 that by the end of 1933 Case would sell lower than his pet, Alaska Juneau. At the time their respective prices were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear v. Bear | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Last year "Smack 'Em Ben" is said to have been asked if he were any relation of David Lamar, onetime "Wolf of Wall Street," manytime a criminal suspect. He is supposed to have laughed, replied, "Sure, I'm the brother-in-law of the Wolf of Wall Street." The New York World telephoned him to ask if this fact was true. He thought it was a joke, said yes. The next morning the World published a story in which it said that Bernard E. Smith was David Lamar's brother-in-law. Within 24 hours this statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear v. Bear | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

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