Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends. In Houston, Harris County Tax Collector Carl S. Smith hired the Dale Carnegie Institute to train his 125 clerks to make taxpaying "as pleasant as possible under the circumstances by giving courteous, polite and smiling service...
Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith explained why so much Southern writing is so good: "It's because people there have suffered more...
...durability, dignity and beauty." There was no denying that the monuments they decided upon were on the conservative side. More modern ones, lacking classical associations, might have seemed to lack dignity as well. Among the best-planned and least assuming of those on exhibition was the Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns was low as death's door...
Jansen claimed he has organized and now controls clubs at Amherst, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Babson, Simmons, and Wheelock. By this spring, Janson predicted, Boston University, Tufts, Williams, Wheaton, Mount Holyoke, Bradford, and others will be added to the list...
...anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes beyond bad taste. It occurs when the political scum, Hominy Smith, toys with the idea of becoming president. "Why not," he asks, "Truman did it, didn't he?" That seems to me clearly over the line...