Word: adept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following caption accompanied a picture of Vinton Chapin '23, in the Photographic Weekly of the Daily Princetonian for January 17: "Vinton Chapin, recently elected captain of Harvard's 1925 eleven. He plays half-back, is an adept receiver of the forward pass, and an excellent open field runner...
...Standard Oil Company for President Roosevelt (dissolution also secured). While Mr. Hughes was becoming New York's Governor, Supreme Court member, presidential candidate, Mr. Kellogg continued his legal practice, became President of the American Bar Association. In 1916, Minnesota elected him to the Senate. He was not adept in politics and fell before the onslaught of Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead when he stood for re-election...
...must to all men, Death came to Leon Bakst, famed Russian: stage-designer, painter. He died, after a long illness, in Paris where he had spent the last 18 years of his life. While adept in formal painting, he won his greatest fame with his scenic and costume designs for many brilliant ballets produced in France, Russia, England...
...first performance of the opera of that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours each day to the practice of this role, some of them, indeed, becoming so adept that no expert can detect them; and they take their places in the world's history as women of quality. But for a great lady to pretend to be a courtesan is at once difficult and absurd. The Baroness Von Popper found...
...Bennett's portrait of the voluble old vineyard-keeper is technically adept, artful in appearance, but often lacking in absolute conviction. Glenn Anders does incomparably the best work of his career as the farm hand. The remainder of the production is managed with the usual surety and vigor of the Theatre Guild...