Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, when the Soviet Government used U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Walter "Beedle" Smith's suggestion that "the door is always open for full discussion and the composing of our differences" as a springboard for its own peace propaganda offensive, TIME Inc.'s Paris bureau chief, Andre Laguerre, cabled his analysis of the U.S. State Department's strategy in the affair...
Cannibalism is a rare but not unknown practice in the magazine business. Last week Street & Smith got ready to gobble its eleven-year-old Pic.* Once a cheap pictorial stuffed with cheesecake, Pic had been restyled in 1945 as a serious magazine for young men. It was not making money, but circulation had grown to 622,000 a month (compared to its rival Esquire's 665,076). Thus, Editor Vic Wagner and his staff were surprised when they got the bad news: their magazine would be killed with the December issue, to give its paper and press time...
...equally concerned with the Ku Klux Klan, Gerald L. K. Smith, and the Communist Party," Ernst declared at the outset. "I'm frankly opposed to stealth and secrecy, with or without nightshirts, in so far as they disturb the free marketplace of ideas in which Americans will make informed distinctions...
...repited the master, "they will go Swift past Smith and Williams, past Moat and Cassel to Blake through the Big Red Lynn...
...Well, you see my brother goes to Yale, and he was very distressed and upset when I said I was going to Radcliffe (he wanted me to go to Smith or Vassar) you see, well, it's because going to Yale, you know, he doesn't think much of Harvard. You know, I mean you can understand that...