Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombing planes tip to one side and wobble a little as they are released. The city is singularly helpless and defenseless against attacks from the air because the Government's anti-aircraft armament is practically useless. About a dozen machine guns and one-pounders, handled by woefully in expert militiamen, have not brought down a single enemy plane so far, all the claims in Government communiques notwithstanding...
Noted as having the longest skiing season in New England, Mount Mansfield at Stowe, Vermont, now boasts nearly 40 miles of trails. Forming a network about the mountain the trails include such well known runs as Nosedive and Chinclip. Trails for all types of skiers from expert to novice have been laid out by the C.C.C. under the guidance of local ski clubs...
...felt his oats. Apparently he reached the conclusion that there were other things to do in New Haven beside attending lectures, for early evening found him in the company of two young ladies and a Yale man wending his way toward Waterbury, all in the condition which a cliche expert would describe as squifty...
Like many another ambitious boy, he studied law, became a judge in Tennessee, went to Congress for 22 years, where he was the leading Democratic expert on taxation in Woodrow Wilson's era, went to the Senate in time to be drafted for Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet. The nearest town to his birthplace in Pickett County, Tenn. was called Olympus...
...appeared and were quoted by a thousand after-dinner speakers tend to look lonely and sallow printed as poetry on a wide-margined page. Not So Deep As a Well includes all of Dorothy Parker's poems except a few that she did not wish reprinted, reveals her expert craftsmanship, the narrow range of her humor, her keen eye for fleecy feminine affectations. It also reveals that her major contribution to U. S. humor has not been such jingles as her celebrated observation that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses," but her relentless parodying of those...