Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Madeira girls go to good colleges (favorites: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr), marry comfortably, and send their daughters back to Madeira. Among past & present Madeirans: Paulina Longworth, Joan Morgenthau, Susan Saltonstall, Diana Hopkins, Laurette Soong (niece of Madame Chiang Kai-shek...
Occasionally he would get up, shuffle to the registration desk, ask the name and salary of some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...
...months ago Crapo Smith died. He was 79. And last week Michigan got the surprise. The old man had left $1,000,000 to the university. The money would go into scholarships, gifts, loans and rewards of merit to worthy, needy students, like the ones Crapo Smith had been silently watching for the last eleven years...
Unlike Crapo Smith, leathery Daniel G. Arnstein is still young at 58, very much alive, and dapper rather than dignified. He quit school at 13 to help support his family, worked as a $2-a-week office boy, and later as a cab starter. For a while, he went to night school, carried a dictionary around with him to look up the words he didn't know. But he never got to college: "I majored in work...
There are appropriate performances by Sydney Greenstreet as a mesmerist, blackmailer and general mastermind; Agnes Moorehead as his ruined wife; John Abbott as her twitchy brother; John Emery as an assistant scoundrel; and decorative performances by Alexis Smith as the heroine and Eleanor Parker (the woman of the title) in a double role. It is almost impossible to be frightened by the picture, but everybody involved seems to "savor" the period, as if it were fine old brandy. The brandy isn't as good as all that, but the savor is pleasant in an old-fashioned sort...