Word: experts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neysa McMein, artist, croquet expert, returned on the Aquitania to report the progress of the game in France. Said Miss McMein: "Croquet is now the vogue among the smart set. Americans are busy playing it. Dukes and princes . . . play badly...
...Exchequer Winston Churchill, ruddy as a round full moon, matter of fact as the taxes he imposes. Crisply Mr. Churchill told the M. P.s that they, as a body of laymen, should not set themselves up as ecclesiastical arbiters, but should pass the Book in deference to the expert endorsement already accorded it by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and a large majority of the Bishops of the Church of England...
...Wilmer Stultz, expert pilot...
...efforts of University Hall to give Freshmen an complete survey of available fields of concentration, the result is spotty. Practise has proven that neither the most lively lecturer, nor the traditional head of a department, nor the actual head of a department is necessarily the most expert summarizer of the work to which his life is dedicated. The garnerings of the Freshman's six months of querying among upperclassmen are bound to be haphazard. Of such shreds and patches, however, are conclusions' made...
...consistency in depriving them of the right to pass upon old works of art which are still in circulation. Thus it would be logical and just for a warden of morals to take exception to many passages in Shakespeare, to large chunks of the Holy Bible. An expert upon nude statuary might condemn, and rightly condemn, the Venus de Milo...