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Word: supersmart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bedroom, Jail, Death | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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