Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Rosetta Duncan, elder Duncan Sister; to William Beri, cinema technical expert. Vivian Duncan, younger Duncan Sister, was rumored also engaged-possibly to Nils Astor, Scandinavian cinemactor. The sisters acted in Topsy and Eva, (TIME, Jan. 5. 1925); have long had a pact requiring a double wedding...
People who resent hearing Jesus called "first Rotarian" resent also he kindred phenomenon of a smooth-spoken advertising expert exercising his facile dictaphone to bring home truths about religion with which most literate people consider themselves perfectly conversant. Critics have derided Mr. Barton's writings for carrying he strong odor of professional publicity and for the seeming presumptuousness of the titles: Nobody Knows." The implication is: "Nobody knows but Bruce Barton, and many people are affronted by such mixtures of religious with secular talk as "Christianity was launched as a short-time proposition." . . . "Preachers . . . believed the world would be . . . liquidated...
...interest in legal lumber may blind the judiciary to the merits of the individual trees of the forest. The English Cabinet System, disclaiming the principle of checks and balances upon which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense is appealing to the Governor, nevertheless guards against too close a perspective by mingling expert under-secretaries with non-expert politician in administering its public business...
...question of who should go to college and who should not is one of recurring complexity, and any expert opinion on the matter is always welcome. The suggestions recently made in the American Magazine, by Dr. Faunce, president of Brown University, is that a candidate for higher education determine his fitness by answering a short list of questions intended to analyze his purpose in life, his interest in study and his capacity for mental effort. Dr. Faunce's questionnaire begins with the inquiries, "Do you like to study, (not merely read) about an interesting subject?" and "Do you like...
...Olvany that he was against the President, wished to organize a Smith boom. He said that the famed kerosene lamp was obsolete, had been purchased at wholesale in 1867. He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine. Terming himself an "agricultural expert," he may have felt that Vermont farm life had been represented as unduly primitive. He said that many another old neighbor shared his opposition to four more years of Calvin Coolidge...