Word: smocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indians when the great Thorpe used to tear down the field snorting through his noseguard. Pop's only art in struction came from a village sign painter. Fond also of carpentry, he manufactures all his golf clubs. Said he last week : "Bob Zuppke, they tell me, wears a smock or a duster or something like that, but artist." not for me. I'm a painter...
...opening night, Producer Carroll appeared attired in a rumpled tan smock and wearing earphones through which he had been listening to the performance. He said something about wanting to give people a big show for a maximum admission of $3. He introduced his backer, Banker William Reynolds Edrington of Fort Worth. Tex. and Manhattan, president of Edrington-Minot Corp. and Edrington Investment Co. It was as a consequence of a birthday party which Producer Carroll gave Banker Edrington that Producer Carroll was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for perjury in 1927. It was also as a consequence of the birthday party...
...house of Big Business are many handmaidens-Architecture, Engineering, Painting, Etching, Advertising, Interior Decorating, et al. This week they are joined by Publishing, a damsel who has visited the house before but always wearing statistical spectacles, a cashier's eyeshade, a warehouse apron or the plain smock of a trade. This time, for the first time, she came in as fine a dress as ever Publishing wore to wait on the Arts, Travel, Sport, Fashion or Society. And this time she spoke a cosmopolitan language instead of industrial jargon, commercial slang, financial smalltalk. This time her name was FORTUNE...