Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart way to get a book published well and cheaply is to hand the manuscript to Tokyo's Hokuseido Press which specializes in English editions of Lafcadio Hearn. Last week packing cases from Japan were opened in New York by G. E. Stechert & Co., Agents, and soon Manhattan literary circles buzzed excitedly over Adventures in Far Eastern Journalism by Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead, the British editor & publisher of Shanghai's monthly Oriental Affairs...
...Wagner roles in English, on the mere chance that subscribers might be willing to accept great music if it was not sung in German. Fremstad refused. When the Wagner operas were reinstated after the War, her health was broken and since then she has been much too smart to attempt a feeble, worn-out comeback...
...told me of the occurrence and the use that was put to the "Plan." Also, he has secured a number of copies of the real "The Perpetual Prosperity Plan," which may be used to better inform such as may be interested in the Battle Creek Congressional district. Smart readers of the "Perpetual Prosperity Plan" will recognize it as satire. About the other type of reader it makes little difference. I wrote and published the "Plan" last June as a josh. Perhaps it may be good politics for the anti-Townsend-Planners to treat it as seriously as occasions may advise...
...Times' principal competitor is the Herald Tribune whose financial section is edited by C. (for Charles) Normal Stabler, a quiet, scholarly Swarthmon graduate (Class of 1923). For smart layout and able writing the Herald Tribune financial section ranks ahead of every other in the U. S. Editor Stabler will celebrate his 35th birthday next week on a Caribbean cruise to recover from the strain of putting out the Herald Tribune's annual review of 22 pages. Better publicized than his superior is brilliant Associate Financial Editor Edward H. Collins, whose Monday morning essays have as large a following...
...when the U. S. prohibited private mail-carrying, Boyd's went into a general delivery business. As the U. S. parcel post service developed. Boyd's again found itself in unprofitable competition with the Government, switched to its present business of compiling mailing lists. Thus smart Mr. Williams turned Boyd's old enemy-the U. S. Post Office-into its indispensable servant. The company has on file some 10,000,000 U. S. names. Trade lists start with Abattoirs, end with Zinc. There are about 10,000 different mailing lists, about 50,000 customers. In 1929 Boyd...