Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor from the cloakrooms. The teller vote was resumed. The Congressional Record made no mention of the interruption. The youth told police he was Marlin Kemmerer, 25, of Allentown, Pa. where he works in the sporting goods department of a Sears, Roebuck store. His friends described him as an expert marksman. Before hospitalizing him for mental observation, police found two sticks of dynamite in his rooming house, a ten-page speech in his pocket. Said he: "You need a gun these days to get the right to make a speech...
Died, William Jacob Holland, 84. butterfly man, director emeritus of Carnegie Institute; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Author (the definitive Butterfly Book), paleontologist (specialties: diplodocus, dinosaur), zoologist, explorer, museum administration expert, artist, teacher, clergyman, "he knew everything about so many things that [he] . . . may well cause special wonder...
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur. Expert at handling both excited women and excited governments, Dr. Rushdi suavely replied that there had been no insult. "The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort...
...Pegler et al. were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters as a "wonder girl." Last week, Wonder Girl Didrikson had cause for wonderment herself. The Amateur Athletic Union...
...made any pretense at listing all the pastimes at which Miss Didrikson is about as expert as anyone of her sex, it would have to include weightlifting, wrestling, fencing, croquet, field hockey, soccer, polo, shooting, rowing, skating, bowling, pool, lacrosse, cooking. She holds the women's world record for throwing a baseball. She got her first newspaper publicity when, in a Dallas store "One look at its trim beauty and you know it has class." two years ago, she hoisted a 50-lb. weight over head. A physical freak in her ability to co-ordinate her actions with...