Word: adept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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YOUNG WOODLEY ? Glenn Hunter and an adept troupe discussing an English schoolboy's earliest love affair...
...will find a comedy called A Lucky Break marked unsatisfactory. The comedy now reappears with music added and remains strictly routine. It is about a rich man who discovered that his old home town loved him for himself and not his money. Fair music and moderately adept performers are included. One imitation monkey-dance by Hansford Wilson is all that mattered much...
...nature of the question to rely chiefly on wit and humorous effects to support the affirmative, while the Crimson debaters had the advantage of being able to bring into play the more serious aspects of the matter. Basil Davenport, the last speaker for the affirmative, showed himself particularly adept at warding off his opponents by a brilliant and witty line of argument...
Servitors flitted excitedly about the Hotel de la Ville, Milan. While an adept facchino hastily pasted the establishment's labels on a small mountain of luggage, he grinned to observe a dictatorial Roumanian gentleman who fumed with the proprietor over the last items of a considerable bill. Suddenly a petite red-haired young woman emerged from the hotel lift with the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania. Before them scurried the Roumanian gentleman, dictatorial no longer, to usher Mme. Magda Lupescu and the former Crown Prince into an automobile which sped to the great Stazione Centrale...
...nineteenth century, the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867, and the plebiscites of Napoleon III, it serves as a reminder that Japan still copies. She now has most of Europe's political features, a constitution, militarism, world-wide diplomacy, and universal suffrage. She has amply proved her descriptive trilogy, "adept, adopt, adapt...