Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apple-cheeked Tennessee mountain girl when she went West to make good. She has lived in Los Angeles since 1920 when she married Erwin P. ("Pete") Werner, an indifferently successful lawyer, who she determined would someday be Governor. As she pushed her husband onward and upward, Queen Helen became adept at the solid kind of political maneuvering that women master infrequently. In 1929, after she had managed Pete Werner's successful campaign for city attorney, Queen Helen was so important politically that she found it necessary to open a downtown office to handle the stream of political callers...
DINTY MOORE'S--Thick, Juicy sirloin, tenderloin, top o'the round steaks, broiled to perfection over hickory logs. Intriguing atmosphere--calm tranquility. A Ronrico frosted frappe concocted by the adept hands of Joe or Charlie. And then--Zowie...
Trainer Jacobs is adept at picking races and riders as well as race horses. His entries are rarely overmatched. He has no contract jockey, chooses riders who are "hot," i e., enjoying winning streaks. Jacobs' horses are usually entered in the name of his wife. Mrs. Ethel Jacobs consequently last week became the leading U. S. owner in number of races...
...piety-in-politics was concerned, last week left Governor Landon well in the lead over President Roosevelt. Never adept at bringing the name of God resoundingly into his speeches, Episcopalian Roosevelt has all but given up mentioning his Creator. In his acceptance speech last week Methodist Landon showed himself in the evangelical tradition of Republicans Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, all expert at invoking God from the rostrum. Began Nominee Landon: "In accepting this leadership I pray for Divine guidance to make me worthy. . . ." Concluded he: "God grant us, one and all, the strength and the wisdom to do our part...
...Adept at speaking French, behaving with French politeness and outdoing even French diplomacy when it comes to haggling around a green table are the statesmen of Turkey, first of countries downed in the War to arise under a Dictator. Last week with exquisite politeness Dictator President El Ghazi ("The Victorious One") Kamâl Atatürk ("Father of the Turks'') called at Montreux, Switzerland a conference at which the Great Powers could agree to his tearing up the Treaty of Lausanne, under which Turkey is forbidden to fortify the Dardanelles. This the Great Powers were delighted...