Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better queens, including England's Mary. As for noise, the first floor was not too noisy for the late, great Aristide Briand, eleven times Premier of France. Foreign Minister almost continuously for seven years. But M. Paul-Boncour is M. Paul-Boncour, a fashionable lawyer with a knack of creating well-bred sensations. He turned French decorators loose in the Queen's Bedroom, gave them carte blanche to make it a quiet, tasteful office. Also last week he completed long-distance negotiations with the German Government which may profoundly change the tariff and quota systems not only...
...toast civilizations to a crisp. He tortures the scientist and his family to learn the secret of its operation. Chandu monotonously rescues them from his clutches to which they monotonously return. Using his knack of turning rifles into snakes, turning gold pieces into toads, stiffening ropes upright in air, passing through solid walls, getting out of coffins at the bottom of the Nile, and abrogating strict Yoga discipline long enough to fall in love with an Egyptian princess, Chandu should reasonably have solved the situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given...
...home in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, and shipped himself, wife and nine children to the New World where he settled down in Chicago's West Side lumber yard and railroad district. One son, Rudolph, soon picked up broken English, discarded newspapers which he sold for 1? profit, and a knack of drawing. In time he | drifted to New York, originated in 1897 a color page of comics called "The Katzenjammer Kids," became one of the world's most beloved cartoonists...
Half a century ago, a shy Harvard Freshman, the sickly descendant of one of New England's proudest families, was forced, through shattered health, to abandon his college career. But the youth of nineteen possessed a knack for writing, and despite his overwhelming drawback of poor health determined to educate himself and apply his talent in examining the lives of the great. Retiring to a quiet country town be began a career which has won for the name Gamaliel Bradford international recognition as one of the biographers...
Blin Gardner, an ingenuous country lad with a knack for mechanical things, is about to take off for Japan in an aeroplane financed by his pretty fiancee and built by two old "characters" in order to receive a fifty thousand dollar prize. After a great deal of emotion, he finally gets away and is last heard of off the coast of Alaska. The next scene is in a New York hotel. Blin, the victorious hero, is expected home. His publicity manager is storming into telephones, receiving reporters, making engagements for dinners, banquets, radio broadcasts, and arranging cigarette endorsements. People rush...