Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muralist Santiago Martínez Delgado has an artist's feeling for form and color, an expert's taste for whiskey. Last week, the two concerns were closely connected. In a salón of the National Capitol in Bogotá, Martínez was busily slapping strong blues and rich reds on a 30-ft. expanse of wall (see cut). His mural will depict the inauguration of Liberators Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander at Rosário de Cúcuta in 1821. If he finished on time there would...
...thrombosis and arthritis, locked himself into his little laboratory in University College, London. He tore up some documents and opened the petcock of a single Bunsen burner. It was enough for his final experiment. At week's end in St. Pancras court, where Sir Bernard had often given expert medical testimony, Coroner W. Bentley Purchase returned "with reluctance" a verdict of suicide...
...seeing that this movie is a preposterously shallow mishandling of some perfectly real problems. It is also a characteristic Hollywood job of turning worthwhile material into trash and presenting it so stylishly that at times it looks good. The dialogue, an affected, pseudo-sophisticated patter, is spoken with such expert variety of inflection that it sounds real, and even intelligent...
Paragraph after paragraph, Molotov's assertions could be disproved by some simple digging for recorded facts. Why did Molotov lay himself open to such complete refutation? Expert Hitler knew the reason...
...grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying...