Word: experts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped Emily Post (who went over to the American Weekly) for a livelier "Everybody's Etiquette" with such guest lecturers as John Kieran (etiquette for birdwatchers and motorists). And for eager eaters, he signed up Clementine Paddleford, the New York Herald Tribune's food expert...
This time Dr. Reichelderfer got an argument from an expert: Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. The dry ice method does work, Langmuir insisted, if it is done right...
John Loves Mary (Warner), As a play, this farce about a returning veteran's muddled love life displayed a juggler's talent for keeping shiny bubbles in the air for three acts. Less expert movie treatment punctures them in the first reel...
...about the same time, when Porter had been solidly established in the theater for some five years, luscious Lucius Beebe, self-made expert on the art of splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness...
...eminent writers on the staff of the Freeman (e.g., Van Wyck Brooks and Suzanne La Follette) knew where he lived. It was an office joke that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with the names of such people...