Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berryman, a matronly blonde who has been estranged from her smart sister Helen because of a court battle over their mother's estate, is famed in Denver for her gaudy back yard in which the trees are painted white. Simple and austere, however, are the plans by which able Architect Jules Jacques Benous Benedict will transform the exterior of existing red brick Franciscan buildings into Lombard Romanesque, outfit the interiors with a new altar, mosaic and murals, library, dining hall and study rooms for 20 brown-robed monks. Those monks will call their habitation Bonfils Memorial Monastery...
...shores of Lake Constance, the Hindenburg was originally designed by famed Dr. Hugo Eckener for the well-blazed airship trail between Germany and Brazil. Last year, however, Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit the vast Hindenburg to fit the Lakehurst hangar, Dr. Eckener removed...
Henry Louis Mencken has filled some 15 books and countless heads with his brilliant palaver. The Billiken-god of a generation that read his Smart Set like so many monthly revelations, he emancipated many a corn-fed adolescent. Mencken was an iconoclastic prophet but not an indignant one. "As an American," he said once, "I naturally spend most of my time laugh-ing." And his brilliance, like that of his fellow-iconoclast, Bernard Shaw, has not always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects...
What Chairman William Averell Harriman had to say to his stockholders, however, was bigger news. In his report he outlined a series of new U. P. services that mark one of the few smart steps any railroad has yet taken toward regaining lost passenger traffic. Able son of an able father, William Averell Harriman has been familiar with his heritage since he worked in U. P.'s Omaha shops during vacations from Yale. Long a director, he was made board chairman in 1932. One of the first things new Chairman Harriman realized was that railroads are susceptible to smart...
...court for $3,600,000. The nine defendants resisted payment on the ground that they had not, as the Government contended, guaranteed the assets of their ailing fellow members in 1932 only to back out later. Apparently the main actor and most eligible goat in the controversy was smart, clean-cut Banker Charles Simonton McCain, onetime chairman of Chase National. As head of the Clearing House committee in 1932, he tried to save the Harriman bank for better times...