Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice Stone has a smart son, Marshall H. Stone, who received his Ph. D. from Harvard at 22 (1925). He likewise received the Sheldon Scholarship that same year, which took him to Paris, where he met Emmy M. Portmann, onetime Cleveland artist. Their engagement was announced last week. At present, Son Stone is an instructor in mathematics at Columbia, where his father was onetime (1910-24) Dean of the Law School. fMal S. Daugherty, brother of the one-time- (1921-24) Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty now on trial in Manhattan, has figured as an important witness in the present...
Molenda, Michigan's plowing fullback, crashed over Oklahoma's goal line twice in the first period and after that, what with the zooming passes of Benny Friedman, the smart defensive play of Ooster-baan, crossed the line almost at will. Score: Michigan 42, Oklahoma 3. Yale had a romp against Boston University. Two backs that have never been heard of before- Goodwine and Decker-helped a good deal to amass the formidable score of 51 to 0. Paul Scull, one of the fastest backs in the East, made Pennsylanvia's fifth touchdown in the last period against...
...swelled the ranks of young America. Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass.) centred some of its attention upon a swart, stocky freshman whose name had a familiar ring and reminded them of something. He was Anton Lang Jr., son of the famed Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria. Sacrilegious smart-alecks were not long in coining his nickname...
...week I was 80. As usual, I failed to announce my retirement as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U. S. Steel Corp. I go to the office every day and stay as long as anyone. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, cheered me up by a bit of smart rhetoric. 'Gladstone,' he said, 'ran the British Parliament when he was past 80; Von Moltke ran the German army when past 80, Pope Leo ran the world-wide Catholic Church...
...know that, Charles Edison, 36, smart son of smart Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 79, by his second wife, has long been chairman of the directorate of many a company which his father organized. Father Edison has been a director of these same firms, and always their president. But their officers have been purely nominal, for Son Edison has been the chief operating executive. Last week they had traded titles-henceforth, President Charles, Chairman Thomas Alva. Announced their Vice President R. H. Allen: "From now on Thomas A. Edison will more and more pass his time working in his laboratory...