Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Failing to obtain George Arliss or Godfrey Tearle for Caesar, the Guild chose Lionel Atwill. His magnificent presence enhanced the role's potentialities; his heavy humor and his cloudy diction deadened them. Helen Hayes, though very lovely and expert, was occasionally caught in her inexhaustible supply of cuteness. Helen Westley, veteran of many a Guild production, seemed to lack entirely the sinister severity of Ftatateeta. The best performance was contributed by Henry Travers as Britannus. The production was magnificent and the new theatre certainly the finest, the most comfortable and the most beautiful in Manhattan...
...Loree has long been nationally known as an expert railroad operator, and also on occasion an expert fighter. He now appears in the new role of expert consolidator of railways. His proposed fifth Eastern system would stretch from New York to the Gulf as well as to the Great Lakes. It would consist of the Delaware & Hudson, and also the Kansas City & Southern, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Wabash, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western or Lehigh Valley or both, and perhaps other small roads...
...entertain the illusion that his administration was responsible for the present financial disorders. He reminded the Senators that loans had been contracted mainly for reconstruction work in the devastated regions, but that at no time did the Government resort to illegal financing. He reminded the Premier that the Expert' (Dawes) Plan had been made and accepted before he came into power and inferred that his [Herriot's] Government had been barren, contrary to the Premier's election promises, of constructive financial reforms. The ex-Premier concluded his speech by saying that the Premier had lost the confidence...
...DOVE-Excitement and stilettos below the Mexican Border. Expert Belasco molding of cheap materials...
...Does not an actor contribute as much to the needs of mankind as the expert manager of a tack factory...