Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utility counsel who came primed, after nearly a year of preparation, to convince Judge Mack that the Public Utility Act was unconstitutional, or at least to obtain a ruling on that point in order to appeal it, SEC's smart Attorney Robert Houghwout Jackson immediately opened a tricky gambit. He suggested that since Electric Bond & Share had never registered with SEC as the Utility Act required, the point at issue was not the constitutionality of the Act as a whole but that of its registration provisions. Electric Bond & Share, argued Attorney Jackson, was on an illegal spot. It could...
...years later Bath Iron Works was sold to Charles Michael Schwab's U. S. Shipbuilding Co., which sold it back to General Hyde's son in 1905. At the top of the Wartime ship-building boom the Hydes again sold out, a move which proved very smart indeed, for by 1925 Bath Iron Works was closed down tight. It stayed closed, except for a brief period of use as a fibre goods plant, until 1927. Then it was taken over by William Stark Newell, a seasoned shipbuilder who had done a turn in the Bath Iron Works...
...come not to hear but to be seen. Not less sour is their estimate of the "virtuoso system" which rewards performers for their fine airs or interesting eccentricities, pays scant attention to their musicianship. Last spring bright, aggressive Ira Arthur Hirschmann, vice president of New York's smart Saks Fifth Avenue department store, snapped: "It's about time somebody threw the circuses out of the concert halls...
William Jameson distilled his first batch of whiskey in Ireland in 1752, aged it in sherry casks. The company he founded is still making whiskey in Dublin although no Jameson has been in the firm since 1905. Present president of William Jameson & Co., Ltd. is smart, swart Lionel Marks. Last year Mr. Marks observed that during Prohibition the taste for malty Irish whiskey seemed to have dwindled away in the U. S., sought co-operation of National Distillers to get Jameson's consumed somehow. Their new "Irish-American" product is 25% pot-still Irish, 20 years...
...Theodora Goes Wild" is the story of a small town girl (Irene Dunne) who goes to the big city to make good, or rather a mean commercial artist (Melvyn Douglas). He discovered her secret, that she was a writer of smart books, exposed her and dishonored her in her own provincially smug town, and made her fall in love with him; but he was married...