Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showgirls include such well-known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that a couturier may indeed be a forceful masculine fellow. The cinemadequate plot and up-to-date dialog are the expert work of Samuel and Bella Spewack (Boy Meets Girl...
Despite this charitarian attitude, jealous and envious doctors constantly try to keep their patients from the ministrations of the famed and expert Mayos. Always anxious to soothe this element in the profession, Dr. Will, the elder, immediately dictated a telegram the instant he heard last month that the Chicago Daily Times intended to print a series of illustrated articles on the Mayo Clinic. The telegram: "We are very much concerned that you are publishing a series of articles on the Mayo Clinic. Such publicity is derogatory to the dignity and achievements of the medical profession, violates our conception of professional...
...good. But when one thinks that the doctors, all their life, do only one thing, more or less circumscribed -the anesthetizers, for example, who only administer ether, and so on-one thinks again (such is the insidious association of ideas) of the Armour & Company butchers in Chicago, of those expert amputators of horns, hoofs, and ears, good fellows all, but who, outside of their little specialty, can do nothing else...
Fact is the sun compass was invented for Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd by unassuming, expert Chief Cartographer Alfred H. Bumstead of the National Geographic Society. The worthy Admiral has publicly said that without it he could never have reached the Poles. Modest Cartographer Bumstead would never tell you this himself...
...precedents existed to guide His Majesty's Government, plans for last week's ceremony were evolved in last-minute haste by tubby little Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew...