Word: experts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europe. "The prospect of a European settlement has arisen which holds some promise. Three Americans of outstanding and well-seasoned ability have been called to give their expert assistance and advice. They do not represent our Government. Their only official standing comes from their being agents of the Reparation Commission...
...author of The Boudoir Mirrors of Washington (TIME, Dec. 31) has written: "Few women in official life have the versatility or dynamic personality of Mrs. McCormick. She is a clever politician, an ardent suffragist, a social leader, an expert horsewoman, an effective writer, and a successful farmer. . . . as a daughter of Mark Hanna, so long autocrat of the G. O. P., she learned the political game early. She played a prominent part in the fascinating life of the 'Little White House.' . . . Not even during its prominence as a political stronghold throughout the Civil War did this celebrated...
Eleutherios is a big man, ascetic, energetic, persuasive. He has lived a life of extreme simplicity and self-abnegation; has worked as many as 16 to 18 hours a day; has proved himself to be expert in handling crowds, without resorting to the tricks of oratory. Once he and his friend, Premier Pashitch of Yugo-Slavia, were in St. Petersburg on a diplomatic errand. Reporters questioned M. Pashitch, who would only reply: "It is impossible to say any-thing." When they interviewed M. Venizelos they found him walking up and down deep in thought. He was pressed for information...
...hardly sounded like a compliment from the office but we tried again with "Expert in anything...
...which proves that food is worth talking about, as everybody knows already. Mr. Charles E. Hecht, an English food expert, says that indigestion has finally been found to be the cause of nearly half of all human illness. But still more interesting, he believes that "eating has a specific social reaction." For example, the actor Charles Kean declared that when he was playing the part of a tyrant he ate pork; when he was playing a murderer, he ate beef, and when he was playing a martyr he ate mutton. The moral is clearly to avoid beef...