Word: smithness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life the southern smalltown coquette who liked one fellow too well to suit her father. Best shot of any talking picture to date - Mary Pickford telling a lawyer what she thinks of her father after he has shot and fatally wounded her lover. In 1897, Mrs. John Charles Smith, a widow, ran a candy counter in a fish store in Toronto. Getting a job, later, with a stock company, she took her five-year-old daughter, Gladys, to the theatre because, she couldn't leave her at home. When Gladys was five she had a part in which...
...Hoover administration recalled this clause in the final section of Article 1 of the Constitution: "No state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into any agreement or compact with another state. . . ." Interstate treaties were rare, though not new.* Secretary Wilbur prepared to send Dr. George Otis Smith, Chief of the Geological Survey, to see the governors of "three or four" of the largest oil producing states, with a view to starting cooperative action.† Meanwhile crude oil production, lacking any restrictions, jumped up 30,850 barrels last week over the week prior, to a total...
...Pope of Rome. With the young Heflin was Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father's got a bug. He's all wrong about Al Smith. . . . My old man will give me hell, but I can't be sticking by him all the time. . . . Papa is a two-gun man. . . ." Escaping Senator Connally's sober supervision, Junior set forth...
...Manhattan arrived last week damp London's courtly George Reeves Smith Esq., perhaps England's leading paladin and patron of the wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few know that the presumably go-getting General Director of these up-to-date hostels is in fact contemplative Mr. Reeves-Smith, venerable doyen of British wine connoisseurs...
Recently appraised at three-quarters of a million dollars was the General Director's unique 15,000-volume library of curious wine lore. More valuable still, however, are the super-sensitive taste-buds on his tongue, and the keen olfactory sense which enables Mr, Reeves-Smith to classify most wines by merely sniffing their bouquet. For 35 years he has passed upon every vintage offered for purchase to the Savoy. Just now he is enjoying a brief U. S. vacation, resting his taste buds, sticking strictly and amiably for a fortnight to legal U. S. mineral water...