Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart Swiss is smiling Max Huber, an international lawyer, a judge and one-time president of the World Court and, since 1928, president of the International Red Cross. In the last capacity he hustled from Geneva to Rome last week to visit Benito Mussolini, take up a few complaints...
Back of this metamorphosis from indigent irregularity to smart success lay a story of shrewd publishing enterprise. In 1932 Nelson Doubleday of the house of Doubleday, Doran groaned, in anguish when he surveyed the unbalanced balance sheets of The American Home and its stylish cousin, Country Life. Together the magazines were losing him nearly $60,000 a month, and of this the greater share was chargeable to The American Home, 10? home-furnishing monthly founded...
...evidence that he had misgivings about his work's presentation before hostilities actually began. "What will happen before this play reaches print or a New York audience," says he in a postscript, "I do not know." That the nations of Europe still remained too scared or too smart to fight when Idiot's Delight appeared on Broadway last week must have gratified Robert Sherwood, Idealist, no less than Robert Sherwood, Showman...
Last week in the high name of Texas pride three smart Dallas lawyers put over a deal which was reminiscent of the Van Sweringens at their best. With $100,000 in cash they gained control of two life insurance companies with total assets of $170,000,000. Leader of the legal triumvirate was Dexter Hamilton, a brusque, 56-year-old onetime Texas judge who is general counsel for Southwestern Life Insurance Co. However, the company he counseled was controlled not by fellow-Texans but by a Manhattan investment trust run by David Meriwether Milton, son-in-law of John Davison...
Nothing better illustrates the fallacy of the "big double bill" type of program than the current offering at the Paramount and Fenway. "The Widow from Monte Carlo" tries so hard to be a smart, sophisticated, gay comedy, and it falls flat with a dull thud that resounds throughout the theatre...