Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trailing the five leaders is Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., which also makes organs. Story & Clark Co. is growing fast under Lothrop Perkins Bull, 35, smart, aggressive and present president of potent National Piano Manufacturers Association. A lawyer until two years ago, Pianoman Bull got into piano making by marrying a Story...
...going on for some $30,000,000 ($105,000,000 in Chinese currency) in "small money." This had been "sequestered" by the province's former satrap, General Chen Chi-tang, who had majestically taken "flight" to British Hongkong with his movable treasures. The exciting question was: Could even smart Chen have moved the enormous weight of $30,000,000 in "small money"? He was said to have moved it in chartered British tramp ships which had displayed the Japanese flag as the emblem most likely to insure them against molestation in Cantonese waters before they made good their getaway...
Rhode Island's Narragansett has been a good thing ever since its fast start two years ago, when the State Legislature weakened before smart lobbying and legalized pari-mutuel horse-race gambling. Within a month the Narragansett Racing Association was incorporated and before the summer was done held its first race with paint still wet on the grandstand. The track takes 62% of all bets made, keeps the "breaks" (i. e., odd pennies left over after bets are paid off to an even nickel). Including the breaks, Narragansett's take last year was $2,174,000. Concessions, programs...
...incarnation, to most Spiritualists a controversial subject, Spirit Brandon is positive. He declares spirits may, if they are smart, abandon their memories of their last life and return to earth as a new personality in a new body. As developed by Astral scientists and practiced with the aid of seasoned Astral physicians, the simplest method involves merging any spirit with the body of an earthly infant of five to eight weeks. "The act," reports Spirit Brandon, "requires the physician to see, in his mind's eye, the spinal cord of both the child and the soul...
With their drugstore profits they snapped up a beer concession at the end of a Manhattan streetcar line in the early 1900's when trolley riding was a regular holiday sport. There they were discovered by the late Marcus Loew, who knew smart showmen when he saw them. The theatre man helped them develop Palisades Park across the Hudson River from Manhattan, which they still own, gave them good steers on other amusement investments. Joe Schenck later went to Holly wood where he married Norma Talmadge and headed United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew...