Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves sued by a dealer on the same grounds. Embroiled in a lawsuit in Hollywood, Calif, last week was a smart, grey, stocky art collector named Dr. U. (for Ulrich) L. (for he won't say what) Di Ghilini. Dr. Di Ghilini is a magician, an adept at exposing fake mediums, who baffles and intrigues the cinema...
Once again Sophomores have a chance to become adept at advertising, sales manship and at business promotion, as the Crimson opens its doors to competitors for the business board next Tuesday...
...indicated by red windsocks on the map). The opening phase of the war was a continual exchange of bombings between Libya and British posts in Egypt, including Alexandria. More important, perhaps, air reconnaissance makes difficult surprise attacks and raids across the desert such as those at which Lawrence was adept...
Hampered by official red tape, Fielden hired to help him tall, twinkle-eyed Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, who, as a translator for the Army, had become an adept red-tape dodger. By introducing a series of talks on "Widow Remarriage," "Untouchability," etc. he shocked the orthodox public into listening to his Bombay station. Objections were many and various. His assistant was kidnapped, mortified by being left in a bathing suit on top of a hill...
Another good story, "The Candy Colonel," deals with army adventures in the '80s. To his sources for these chapters Author Horgan pays just tribute: "How many novelists and draftsmen and scientists the Army contained in those days!" But if Horgan is adept at recreating action and atmosphere from records, he is no slouch at direct observation. If he can reconstruct the fortunes of a German family from one of the strange, castle-like old mansions to be found here & there in the Southwest, he can also-as he does in the best story of the book-write a penetrating...