Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home. At the outbreak of the War Aaron's difficulties were certainly immense, and Dr. Tansill's book gives the impression that Colonel House was not the least of them. Proud of his part in drawing up the Federal Reserve Act, House became an amateur financial expert, with the "comfortable conviction that his knowledge . . . was adequate to meet the emergency." In the chaotic situation that developed in international finance in 1915, when Allied orders were keeping U. S. factories humming, but when the Administration's disapproval of loans to belligerents threatened a crisis, Wilson listened to House...
...canoes sighted a shark and immediately anchored. . . . Presently a shark swallowed one of the bait, but in pulling the shark managed to cut the line. Subsequently, more than 20 lines were cut in this manner, which proved a source of great mystery to the expert fishermen...
...MIRROR TO GENEVA - George Slocombe-Holt ($3). Expert characterizations of such League of Nations heroes as Briand, Stresemann, Eden, written with the polite air of a chairman introducing the speakers of the evening...
...could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...
Edwin A, Lahey, 36, labor expert for tie Chicago Daily News...