Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped before the bandstand, crowded with notables. A lapel microphone was put into his hand. He pulled himself up on the car's downfolded top and began one of the brief, pleasant little speeches at which he is so adept...
...playing in a Hollywood musical comedy-in a theatre with Colman, laughing at Charlie Chaplin. The Devil Is Driving (Paramount) is another chapter in Paramount's current saga of crime & punishment, dealing with misbehavior in the garage and the nasty methods of automobile thieves. These thieves are not adept. When they steal a "classy closed job" they drive it so fast that even traffic policemen notice them; in trying to reach their base of operations, the Metropolitan Garage, they run down a small child (Dickie Moore) in a toy roadster. His father is the garage manager (James Gleason...
...people, and because the system demands their active cooperation, it does not yet represent more than a strong minority in U. S. education. With some methods sharply defined, others vague. Progressive schools in general turn out children who are keenly observant, able to amuse themselves, often undisciplined in manners, adept at using their hands, sometimes foggy as to specific facts. Nearly all Progressive schools are in cities. Four of the best-known ones are in New York: Walden, founded 19 years ago by Margaret Naumburg, has a set daily program but endeavors to make the children self-reliant (from babyhood...
...Marx Brothers. Instead it has Jack Oakie, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Lyda Roberti and an attractive ingénue named Susan Fleming to play opposite Oakie. William Claude Fields is the President of a place called Klopstokia, a small and ludicrous country in which all the citizens are adept at running, jumping, diving and lifting weights. If all the athletes in Klopstokia lay end to end they would reach 432 miles. Angela (Susan Fleming) tells Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) that she is sure of this because the athletes did it. Fields is President because he is the strongest...
...latest novel Authoress Baum, a literary midwife adept at helping her characters give birth to what she intimates are their souls, turns in a good job of soul-saving midwifery. Only after her hero has gone through highly sensational throes does she ease him with a dose of religio-romantic twilight sleep. The tale of his agonizings, told with a dramatic flair, will make a better movie than it does a book, as was probably intended...