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Word: smithness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Verbum Sap | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...built up, and reached with a mechanical inevitability--the day of the "well-made play." Fortunately, that rigidity doesn't hold these days. In a period of nine-act dramas, of comedies taking place in a character's mind, of slangy racketeer melodrama the obvious mechanisms of Harry B. Smith's farce strike one as outdated, rusty, but serviceable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

Today, after two weeks of drilling and reorganizing, which was considerably slowed by the addition of new men who had been cut from the 1933 squad, the Dormitory teams will get under way in their annual series Gore Hall will tackle Standish, last year's undefeated interdormitory champions, while Smith and McKinlock are fighting it out on another field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. HUEY'S PREDICTION FOR TODAY'S GAME ATHLETICS 8 CUBS 3 | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked when he would move from the Hotel Biltmore into his new Manhattan home (No. 51 Fifth Ave.). Said he, paying the ultimate tribute to Catherine Dunn ("Katie") Smith, "I will move when the last rug is laid, the last picture is on the wall and dinner is on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...ringside the shocking realization that he was unconscious. Later that night after Sharkey, jubilant, had gone to a nightclub with his wife, the rumor that Loughran had died of the punch on his way out of the stadium led friends to call up his manager, one Joseph Smith, who said "Oh my God, no, no, no." Sharkey claims the world's heavyweight championship, but to make his claim good must beat Max Schmeling, now resting at home in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fisticuffs | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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