Word: adept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While many of the boys of today are feverishly putting on the golf green, Cal was happy in pursuing to its lair the sportive potato. . . . He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese...
...flawless example of the British style was introduced last week by the Selwyns. It is advertised in towering type as an "intimate" revue. Intimate may be taken to mean quality rather than quantity in cast; taste rather than expense in scenery; personality rather than prodigality in production. Three exceptionally adept players-Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence, Jack Buchanan-are pleasantly and persistently occupied throughout the entertainment. A moderately voluptuous and not particularly agile chorus of English girls is intermittently employed. The scenes are peculiarly abrupt, much of the humor novel, the music adequately mild...
Prince George is a lieutenant in the Navy, and, after the Prince of Wales, considered the most attractive of the King's sons. A thoroughgoing sportsman, he is fond of dancing, is adept at strumming jazz tunes on the piano...
...lest it be thought that I am underestimating Mr. Washburn's work let me quote at random. "This is another story of the Log Cabin to the White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli...
...profound banality! And yet there is undoubtedly a charm in such adept periphrasis as this...