Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field requires no more work than any other language field, but the students who get the most pleasure out of their work are those with a knack for languages and a real interest in German. The Faculty is interested and the smallness of the enrollment means that there is much friendly contact between them and the students. This is a most enjoyable feature of concentration...
When an industry wants to put its best foot forward, it is likely to hire a man with a knack for public relations. This man the newspapers will refer to as TSAR. Prime examples: the cinema industry's Hays, baseball's Landis...
...women writers, a few men like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Every Post editor has a string of authors he cultivates, and Erdmann Neumeister Brandt's (whose brother runs the prominent literary agency of Brandt & Brandt) string includes many younger male fictioneers whom he, like Graeme Lorimer, has a knack of developing. Red of face and hair, Associate Editor Martin Sommers, who spills out topical information like a teletype, applies news sense developed on the Mew York News to conceiving and abetting articles on sport and politics...
Brilliantly adapted by Jo Swerling from a play by Ferenc Molnar, played up to the hubcaps by cinema's most famed comedy couple and high-class supporters, Double Wedding is a 100% sample of the haywire school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind...
...soon had his ministers half crazy with alarm. When they tried to maneuver an election to hamstring the power of the church, the King sided with the bishops. He attended a racy play. When he ran out of his own arguments, he borrowed his son's. Discovering a knack for writing his own speeches, he dug into history books for precedents to back his aggressive stand. His popularity with the people was going sky high...