Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to bend silver rubles with his mighty fingers, to crack nuts in his hairy fist Nuncio Ratti could not duplicate those feats. His hands were, and are, a scholar's soft ones. ' Joint diversion of the Marshal and the Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted his play between defense and attack. The Marshal won sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology...
...samisen is to Japan. A three-stringed, long-necked banjo with enormous decorative tuning pegs and a square wooden drum covered with white dogskin parchment, it makes a noise something like a ukulele-bagpipe merger. No Geisha girl dares hold up her elaborately coiffed head unless she is adept on the samisen. More samisens are made and sold than any other musical instrument in Japan, yet the samisen industry has felt the World Depression...
Miss von Wiegand, adept with her typewriter since childhood, described for Liberty last June how she obtained in Moscow, gratis and in a few minutes, a divorce from her husband who was then in the U. S. Last autumn Mr. Hearst gave her a commission as special correspondent in Russia...
...Paris. Reporters might have fared better with First Prizeman Picasso. Friend of Matisse, but never a member of his early group of insurgents, Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), Pablo Ruiz Picasso has theories on art and believes in them. With remarkable technical ability, he might easily have become an adept forger. From his early days as one of the founders of Cubism he has been ceaselessly experimenting, changing his style of drawing, his palette. His studio in the Rue de la Boétie is precise as a laboratory, he is meticulously exact in keeping appointments. He is not only...
...Milliken's well-written advertisement quoted correctly, but wisely abstained from drawing certain distinctions. "Harakiri" is only one form of suicide, at which the Japanese are peculiarly adept. Newsman Russell admits the Western screen is encouraging Japs to restrain from their heroic belly-cutting, BUT (here Mr. Milliken forgot to quote) AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER FORMS OF SUICIDE. "A Japanese authority who has studied suicide in his country." says Mr. Russell . . . "blames the movies for the increase of other forms of self-despatch...