Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several criminal cases in the few years which he spent at the bar and in his acquaintance with several graduates of the state prison at Charlestown. With bland assurance. Wilkins asserts. "Obviously the conclusions of such a person are entitled to no weight in a field where experience and expert knowledge are prerequisites...
...into straight history interspersed with lyrical descriptions and adulterated by extraneous, pseudo-historical incidents, which although occasionally interesting, are usually irrelevant. For more than 150 pages the reader is carried through a synopsis of the expedition's journal whose principal revelation is that Lewis acted largely as a botanical expert while Clark took active command. The remaining few pages are devoted to an account of Lewis' term as governor of the Louisiana Territory, to which post he had been appointed by Jefferson--an account which would be lamentably brief if it were not that he accomplished little as governor...
...peasanty wife, a fat daughter and her secretive husband, a loafing son with whom Bruno was always on the verge of a dangerous quarrel, a superannuated clerk who idolized Bruno but hated the rest of them, and Anitra, Bruno's youngest daughter and his favorite. Temperamental herself, and expert at mimicry, Anitra was also hardheaded. When she discovered how tradesmen were cheating her mother she took over the housekeeping, held the public purse. When she decided that her father must have financial independence to finish his great symphony, she bargained herself to one of his rich friends...
...enterprise, his gift for dramatically making the most of a bad situation. Stokowski's hand was seen in the promise to give new as well as standard operas, in the report that there would be double-cast experiments presenting comely actors on the stage while the voices of expert singers would come from behind the scenes by electrical transmission. Such ventures require money and Stokowski's Orchestra has had trouble enough paying its routine way this season. Most Philadelphians felt that they had Mary Louise Curtis Bok to thank for sav ing their city's opera reputation...
...from the comic sheets and shows it; not only that, but it has also been diluted with Hollywood sentimentality. A poor farm boy goes to the big city, and becomes famous as a prize fighter. Whereupon he immediately starts to sow a large crop of wild oats with the expert help of Lupe Velez. But his old mother back on the farm hears about it, and, being well aware of the traps that these fast city girls may set for her boy, comes posthaste to save him from this awful fate. Yanked rather precipitately from the arms of Miss Velez...