Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Especially impressed was I with the particularly well-drawn simile of President Roosevelt [TIME, Jan. 14] "saddling" his "colt." "Expert political horseman" indeed is our country's President...
...white-haired Briton of 77, was suing Miss Helen Clay Frick for slander & libel, asking $250,000 damages. In White Plains, N. Y. a Supreme Court jury sat down to hear the evidence. Its nub was that Defendant Frick had ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator of her father's art collection, that the book on the Frick collection which he was trying to sell was "full of inaccuracies and adds nothing to art connoisseurship...
...Albert S. Osborn, 74, handwriting expert, told the jury that the only man in the world who could have written the note left in the baby's room and the succeeding ransom notes was Defendant Hauptmann...
...colt. A good way, if the animal seems tractable, is to gentle it with words, feed it sugar to gain its confidence, saddle it deftly before it grows excited, then mount and show it who is master. Last week Franklin Roosevelt, who is the U. S.'s most expert political horseman, set out to break a new Congress...
Like the exterminator-man. Col. Guy T. Viskniskki (who hates to see his name misspelled) has an unpleasant occupation which doubtless achieves worthwhile results. Executives call him an efficiency expert. Embittered newshawks call him the ''wrecking crew." Both names displease him, even if they are partially accurate. He doctors ailing newspapers, trimming payrolls with the steely detachment of a surgeon. He is partly bald, fiftyish, looks something like a pelican...