Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a prominent corporation lawyer was barred from ever again practicing in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. His name was Louis Samter Levy. For 37 years sharp, shrewd, able Louis Levy has practiced law in New York. For most of these years he was reputed a wizard at piercing the tangles and thickets of corporation and other law. His office in Wall Street-shared with various capable partners-flourished through the worst years of Depression: from 1932 to 1938 Louis Levy made $1,396,000. In 1933 alone he made...
...classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned by a New York County Grand Jury because of his part in settling a bankruptcy...
There will be a whole Board meeting Friday at 2 o'clock sharp. Every editor is expected to be present for election of officers and candidates...
...picture agency which supplied a miscaptioned actress, a sharp rebuke. Herewith the real Blanche Bates (who never wore tights) as she appeared in 1901 in Under Two Flags. A private company produced The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, though the CPI (which effectively suppressed other movies) let it pass without comment. TIME stated that Creel "deplored the national hysteria which his Committee had so successfully fostered." In general, as Authors Mock & Larson amply showed, George Creel's CPI occupied the position of bellwether of the propaganda herd...
There will be a luncheon tomorrow in the Sanctum before the Army game. All editors are invited, yea, encouraged to bring dates (or "drags," as we Army men say). Luncheon will be served at 12:15 sharp and the bowl will flow at noon...