Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warner Brothers are considered to have more (73) and better writers than any other company, a flair for making fast action stories without wasting too much money, a knack of originating trends. To Warner Brothers salesmen in Atlantic City last fortnight. Major Albert Warner, in charge of distribution, told what his brother Jack, in charge of production, had prepared for 1934-35; Barbara Stanwyck in Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, a sequel to I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang called I'm Back in the Chain Gang; Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, with Guy Kibbee; Anthony Adverse; Dolores...
...felt that he would last long and facultymen were unruly. Apparently no Washingtonian could bring peace. The Regents decided to pass the word around that the job was open, wait for applications. They came in floods. Typical was one from a small-town high school principal who "had a knack of making himself liked and thought he would make a good university president." The Regents swung around the country, interviewed some 50 educators, found none both suitable and willing to put his head in Washington's political beartrap. University of Chicago's Dean George Alan Works was interested...
Invitation to a Murder (by Rufus King; Ben Stein, producer). Never a Dashiell Hammett when he was writing his murder tales. Playwright King's dialog is bookish, lifeless, unconvincing. But he has a knack of conveying a sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich and powerful California lady lies in a deathlike trance, shrouded, while the grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from...
...weight, asked the meet director how to throw the thing, stepped into the circle and slung it 32 ft., a meet record, his first try. Prophetically said Leo Sexton, U. S. Olympic shot putter: "Wait until he learns how to put that ball. As soon as he gets the knack of letting the shot go, he'll break every record in the book...
...first Chris Olsen experienced difficulties. The density of the water destroyed perspective. He would often miss his canvas altogether. When he dropped brushes, they would float to the surface. Now he has mastered the knack of water perspective, uses a palette knife instead of a brush. To avoid chills, even in the warm Bahaman waters where he paints, he stays down only 20 minutes at a stretch, makes four or five trips a day. Sometimes Dr. Roy Waldo Miner, the Museum's Curator of Living Invertebrates, joins him, once took an under water cinema of him at work...