Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neat, premature perfection of her character appears to extend in all directions. Her teeth fall out on schedule, one by one, and are replaced for working hours by temporary stopgaps. She wears one of these in Captain January. She is expert at such games as checkers, pachisi, casino and "squares"-connecting dots on a piece of paper with straight lines to form boxes. She recently beat Oscar Olsen, a member of the Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps...
Forecasts. In other respects, last week's games did little to verify expert forecasts. Consensus rated the teams as follows...
...Expert billiard players, disgusted with ordinary billiards because it is so easy, have never ceased devising harder variations. Three-cushion billiards, in which the cue ball must touch three cushions before completing a carom, is the most difficult of all. As a swimmer, Lee specialized in long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest...
...Cleveland, the Detroit Tigers, last year's World Series winners, aided by expert pitching from famed Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe, now 24, beat the home team...
More fortunate, in that they at least appeared in action last week, were Rookies Ben Geraghty of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who was a college basketballer as recently as February, and Mike Kreevich of the White Sox, whose expert hitting against St. Louis helped put his team at the League...