Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon smart Washington will miss the deceptively nervous gentleman who wins so often but so charmingly and wittily at bridge, too. Diplomatic Washington will remember the master negotiant who won so much for China at President Harding's Nine Power conference.* for the cablegram told Dr. Sze to cross the Atlantic and resume the post of Chinese Minister at London, which he held throughout the War. Of the six Sze offspring (4 girls), half are being educated on each side of the Atlantic. Thus, although Dr. and Mrs. Sze will leave Maimie at Wellesley, where she was coxswain and captain...
Throughout the U. S. smart citizens and radio listeners know that Tycoon Young is Chairman of General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
From the clergy came a wry farrago. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates at the Chapel of the Intercession called Jolter Barnes a smart-Alec. Dr. Lyman P. Powell at St. Margaret's remarked that Jolter Barnes confused front page publicity with ordered knowledge. Rabbi Nathan Krass at Temple Emanuel contended: "Science enhances the glory of God." Cardinal Hayes at St. Patrick's Cathedral listed a score of great men in biology, anthropology, astronomy, surgery, pathology, who have been Catholic, religious...
Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast...
...perhaps an accident, perhaps an earned result, that that cynosure of U. S. attention, the Prince of Wales, visiting on Long Island in the summer of 1924, was reported in the newspapers to be using a smart, little-known roadster on his prankish nocturnal visits; a roadster so little-known and so unusual, with its four-wheel brakes and indirectly-lighted dashboard, that the newspapers felt justified in mentioning its name-Chrysler...