Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, studied law. For years he practiced law, specializing in public utilities, until in 1912 he caught the attention of General Electric's President Charles Coffin. As head of the law department he had plenty of practice in his specialty: negotiation by mutual compromise. Negotiator Young was so adept, so tactful that a gift to Belgian Emile Francqui of one of his prize Van Hornesville bulls contributed to the successful termination of the 1929 Reparations conference...
Harvard had the edge on the Bruins last year, but in 1930 the Providence nine drubbed the Crimson badly in both encounters of a two-game series. The Brown team never looks too good on paper, but is disastrously adept at causing upsets...
...China must become adept at slaughter. China must now put her national defense above all else...
...each other through most of the picture. Beery plays a dirty trick on Gable which causes trouble between Gable and his girl. Beery's girl tries to patch it up, succeeds in making Beery try to say "I'm sorry," with the shamefaced expression at which he is adept. Later Beery has an even better chance to make up to Gable. He rescues him from drowning, flies him back to the Saratoga, wrecks the plane and kills himself landing in a fog. Beery and Gable, particularly the former, give likable performances in the oh-yeah manner. Good shot: Gable...
...cracking campaigner Jerry Highland who must have been the interlocutor for the skit, and George Lewis, a mental inferior who diets on Indian nuts. The girl, played by Jean Dixon, conceives the idea that Hollywood needs a school of vocal culture and that she is willing to play the adept pedagogue with the support of Jerry and George. They all go out to the land of plenty and for the remainder of the piece the playwrights thumb their noses at America's greatest industry. It is the story of the rise of George, the dull, to Hollywoods greatest and most...