Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew she would be. The same young lady is the high light of the evening, being extremely pleasant to look upon and quite in evidence most of the time. She also performs several Spanish dances, clicking castanettes and swinging about in the traditional fashion. If you're an expert on such dances you'll know more about how good they are than...
...abandoned the tonal for the graphic art. He painted ornamental screens full of bearded Russians of red-coated huntsmen with filigrees of bugles and hounds. But the New Yorker encouraged his satiric sense and he found his metier. Last year he married Lois Long, onetime night club and restaurant expert of the New Yorker. They have a small daughter...
President & Mrs. Coolidge dined at the house of the Secretary of State & Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, of St. Paul. Other Minnesotans present, with their ladies, were Sumner Thomas McKnight (banker, realtor, expert on criminal pardons & paroles), John Sargent Pillsbury (flour-"Eventually. Why Not Now?"), President Donald John Cowling of Carleton College at Northfield. Also present was Dr. William Holland Wilmer, ophthalmologist...
...suspect that Philip Goodman who ... is ... expert at the consumption of food . . . must have interfered with the direction of Rainbow ... I shall not be astonished if I learn that the long wait after the second scene was due to his efforts to be helpful ... I suggest that Mr. Stallings and Mr. Hammerstein persuade Mr. Goodman to go to Italy for a month and fill himself with food so that he may fall into a torpor. . . . They must get Mr. Goodman eating or their play will collapse'. ... A sharp pruning knife. however, especially if Mr. Goodman can be sent...
...spite of tactical errors at Shiloh, brutal human waste at Cold Harbor, Grant was unfortunately awarded the presidency. He knew nothing about politics or human character, neither of these imponderables being tangible matter of action. His chosen advisers were crooked or incompetent (the minister to England, a poker expert, taught the game to British peers, started a fad), his policies pathetic; but grimly he stuck to both. Scandals rivaling Teapot Dome culminated in the gold corner by Gould and Fisk, shrewd rascals who dazzled Grant with their powerful wealth, involved the honest dupe in fiasco...