Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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True Confession (Paramount) is the latest effort of an expert team of light comedy artisans, Director Wesley Ruggles and Screenwriter Claude Binyon. It is also a new comic high for Carole Lombard who-with Nothing Sacred, in which she is co-starred with Fredric March, released last month and still playing the first-run houses-is in the envied position of competing with herself at U. S. box offices...
...addresses. Before the Bureau was created editors were left to their own devices in straightening out Hitler's tortured utterances. They frequently failed and sometimes inadvertently produced a malicious twist to the Führer's statements. As an example of the dire need for expert editing for Adolf Hitler it was officially explained that before the Bureau began its work "80% of the quotations attributed to Hitler were misquotations...
...Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide a new Standard Oil tanker. Name: William H. Berg...
Hens. Since everyone considers himself an expert in sizing up a town, and every Bill Smith is sure his own town is the greatest, Edward Lee Thorndike last week was well aware that at 63 he was stepping into the controversy of his life. He is used to controversy by now. The facts ferreted out by his immense curiosity have shocked people for 40 years...
...raising his voice; he scarcely gets up to do his dances. His insouciance and absent-mindedness seem very real, and make of him a most likeable comic hero. Evelyn Laye, his English wife, retains her dignity and quiet charm even through the clowning required of her, and does some expert singing to boot. Adele Dixon, conspicious for the daring of her gowns, manages to capture a respectable French accent, French raciness, and French contempt for British beefsteak...