Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer long Herbert played with the Indian children and they became very dear friends. . . . Perhaps it was the Indian boys who taught him to be such an expert fisherman. Mr. Hoover can't be beat when it comes to catching the big fish...
Chaney's first cinema job, obtained at once for the asking, was riding horses in a Western. After The Hunchback of Notre Dame he was regarded as an expert at disguises, wrote an article on make-up for Encyclopedia Britannica. A ventriloquist in vaudeville, he capitalizes this ability in The Unholy Three. He ascertained he could best imitate a female voice not in falsetto but by speaking quietly and enunciating carefully. Last of the great stars to make a talkie (except Chaplin, who still swears he will never talk), Lon Chaney explained his reluctance by saying that speech would...
Married. René Lacoste, holder at various times of U. S., British and French tennis championships, expert golfer; to Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion French woman golfer, onetime holder of the British women's golf championship, expert tennis player, daughter of the Director & General Manager of the Bank of Indo-China; at Paris; after a courtship long prolonged by the groom's weak lungs...
...President Eckstein ("president" is the title he gives himself for managing and financing an opera company) was born 65 years ago in Milwaukee, attended public school and a business college run by Robert C. Spencer of handwriting renown. Passionately fond of music, he studied the violin, never became particularly expert, never considered making music his profession. His first job was with the Wisconsin Central R. R. for which he became passenger traffic manager while still in his 20's. At that point he turned his back on railroading, entered the millinery firm of Stumer, Rosenthal & Eckstein. Following interests have...
Record. For years Capt. Frederick H. Becker, expert pilot, agent for Laird Airplane Co. (instructor of Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson and the latter's daughter Alicia), had not suffered a serious accident. Last week Capt. Becker flew a $25,000 Laird biplane from Roosevelt Field to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., there overshot the field, cracked up. He climbed into another Laird, reached Roosevelt Field 2 hr. after his first takeoff, struck a soft patch of ground, cracked up. Said Capt. Becker, emerging still unhurt from the second wreck: "Well, I guess that's a record...