Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories. The fact is that he has found his metier and doesn't choose to turn again to aesthetic writing. Only last week he refused Burton Rascoe's suggestion that he reprint in book form his famous Raegan Stories that appeared in 1913 or thereabouts in the Mencken-Nathan Smart Set. He doesn't want those sophisticated tales cropping up now. If they were reprinted, his name would carry them into thousands of American homes, where it is a parental maxim that a Terhune book is fit for the children to read. Then the Smart Set vein would crop out?...
...court martial proceeded Vienna was roused to fresh alarm as 40 Nazis suddenly appeared at the hospital in which lay "King Anton" Rintelen, burst in and tried to rescue him. Smart police work nabbed eleven, but Austria closed the week uneasily convinced that there was still plenty of fight left in her Nazis...
Meanwhile a $126,000 promotion campaign directed by Publisher's Counsellor John Hanrahan, articulating the smart-chart objective of The New Yorker, began to get results. Mr. Fleischmann put up $400,000 before the corner was reached, but in 1927 he could and did refuse $3,000,000 clear profit to sell out. He advanced $393,000 more to see the magazine completely around the corner, was repaid in two years. His $400,000 investment is today represented by 35% of the stock of the F. R. Publishing Co. which pays $3 dividends...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...
...Smart, hustling American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. and subsidiaries reported half-year profits of $658,000, up 170%, from the first six months...