Word: smarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campbell, l.t. r.t., Shurtleff, Morgan Branch, Gaynor, l.g. r.g., Hageman, Esterly, Waters Eastman, Kimball, c. C., Hallowell, Almy Blumenthal, Miller, r.g. l.g., Harter Mudge, Xanthacky, r.t. l.t., Bancroft, Esterly Connelly, Chapman, Freeman, r.e. l.e., Barton, Lovett Rollins, Donovan, q.b. q.b., Wolcott, Coburn Wilson, Degasis, l.h.b. r.h.b., Leonard, Feins Schollenberger, Smart, r.h.b. l.h.b., Scott, Thorndike, Davison Sampson, f.b. f.b., Hardy, Scott...
...Paris of Japan' splendrous old Kyoto, still the citadel of Buddhist culture, came three smart sons last week. They were John Davison Rockefeller III; Malcolm MacDonald, scion of Britain's peace-potent, peripatetic Prime Minister; and Lady Nancy Astor's studious William. Came also some 200 other notables to the third biennial session of the Institute of Pacific Relations...
...have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went to War, quixotically enlisting as a private. When he returned on leave, exhausted with hardship and tension, he could no longer take his share in the smart, arty conversations of his set, and found both Elizabeth and Fanny doing very well without him. His commission brought only increased nervous strain, so he let himself be killed...
...Hastings work included Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre to the Unknown Soldier, the Senate and House of Representatives office Buildings in Washington, the Manhattan Bridge, the Manhattan Victory Arch, the interior of the Metropolitan Opera House. He did not approve the theory of Manhattan skyscrapers, but he redesigned the Ritz Tower, smart apartment hotel. He believed that the inflation of real estate values necessarily brought about by skyscrapers and the subsequent deflation of vast areas of "unimproved" ground, made for economic instability. Of tall architecture he said: "Most of our skyscrapers . . . [are] elongated packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections...
Until last week the Joneses and the Laughlins must have thought they had outsmarted Financier Eaton, for as soon as Mr. Girdler was made president he bought a $140,000 home in Sewickley, smart suburb, began to make his name known to other Pittsburgh families than his employers, seemed definitely settled there. But last week he resigned from Tones & Laughlin to be "actively engaged in the development of plans affecting the iron and steel industry." It was evident that the Eaton interests had. won, especially when two days later R. J. Wysor, general manager and assistant to President Girdler, also...