Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he first went to work as a solicitor for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. five years ago, Haley Fiske Jr. met some glum life insurance solicitors. His father, Haley Fiske Sr., was president of the company. Some salesmen sneered: smart son, going to work for rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during...
...cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...
James Gordon Bennett invited him to join him in establishing the New York Herald. Greeley declined. Instead, in 1834, aged 23, he began to publish and edit the New Yorker, a weekly literary journal (in no wise connected with the current smart-chart by that name...
...psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor. But I assure you, if you don't know this crowd, they would do that once in a while with any one. . . . Dr. Baker is an even-tempered, easygoing, commonsense sort of fellow, who has had lots...
...freshman year he captured a prize for an English essay and was one of the first members of his class to have poetry published in the Lit (undergraduate literary monthly). Another Pennsylvanian, one Lloyd H. Smith, was chosen for the highest office on the News-the chairmanship. Two smart young men from Dayton, Ohio, will guide the News' finances* in 1928: one Joseph E. Lowes Jr. and Robert Patterson Jr. who is the grandson of the late John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register...