Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a smart tennis player, Cyrus Eaton had more than once caught the Securities & Exchange Commission flat-footed in its long battle to revoke the underwriting license of his investment house, Otis & Co. SEC charged that Eaton had instigated a suit against Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and then used the suit to get out of underwriting a stock issue for K-F when it seemed that Otis might lose millions on the deal. Eaton neatly handled that hot serve. He sued SEC in the U.S. District Court. It ruled that there was insufficient evidence against Otis. SEC took the case...
Washington correspondents know smart, stocky James Arthur Wechsler as one of the ablest reporters in the capital. But his name was well down on the totem pole of the New York Post Home News (circ. 380,000); he was one of two "associates" to Washington Bureau Chief Charles Van Devander. Last week, at 33, Jimmy Wechsler slid all the way up the pole to the editorship...
...prize is given for the best collateral essay written in connection with the History 1 course. Sue Smart '52 received honorable mention...
...family's 85-year-old store is both an art shrine where collectors and plain shoppers may browse in peace, and a smart shop where a bride may order everything from her china, glassware and sterling to her custom-tailored furniture and kimonos. Gump's will give shelf room to a $12.50 piece of California pottery-if it is esthetically good-alongside a $1,800 piece of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and encourages its customers to do the same...
...slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that fine writer is known to be Author Heyer's favorite. Austen readers will discover quickly that the author of Arabella has indeed gone to school to Jane, but not long enough...