Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help to the picture, is indicative of the enormity of the hostile forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much), Secret Agent is a first-rate sample of his knack of achieving speed by never hurrying, horror by concentrating on the prosaic. Its most irritating flaw is the old-fashioned tag shot of the faces of Gielgud and Carroll, at once clumsy and unnecessary...
Married. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, general managing director of potent Royal Dutch-Shell, divorced last month by Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov, Lady Deterding, on grounds of misconduct: and Charlotte Mina Knack, 38; in Amsterdam...
...returning veterans only two played attack last year. The remaining forwards must be picked from completely inexperienced Sophomores Coach Stahley is building no great hopes on hidden talent, as it takes any man quite some time to get the knack of handling a lacrosse stick...
...last week opened simultaneously in 326 U. S. and Canadian theatres. The story, suggested by Reporter Charles Blake of the Chicago American, is built around a character representing a romantic conception of the Quintuplets' Dr. Allan Dafoe. Twentieth Century's Producer Darryl Zanuck is noted for his knack of patching stories out of histories and headlines. The Country Doctor is thus far the most convincing proof of his abilities in this direction. It is a warmhearted, amusing and astonishingly skillful cinema which should reward its manufacturers as handsomely as it will entertain its audiences...
...pleasantly, a certain knack is involved in the accretion of consistently high grades. This includes judicious selection of courses in familiar fields, a craftily genial promotion of favorable relations with instructors, and a liberal amount of genius as Carlyle defined it,--"an infinite capacity for taking pains." If by adopting a less narrow-minded attitude towards his work, or taking a difficult course not in his field because he is interested in it, a man drops a group in his rating, that should be cause to bestow or continue a scholarship, rather than to refuse or rescind...