Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are three categories of photographers-scientific, amateur and those who photograph for profit. From the last I have suffered a great deal and Princess Mary has suffered a great deal more. Such photographers have the most tiresome knack of clicking the camera just at a moment when one's mouth is wide open and some unattractive attitude is being struck by their victim. I would like to call that kind of a photographer a damned nuisance...
...remember passages read over by some one else, to memorize certain books laboriously translated; but only incidentally will it mean a facility in reading French or German. Scarcely, if at all, better are the special language examinations. A little luck in hitting a passage seen somewhere before, a knack of guessing at words and construction under the pressure of necessity--these and other factors have aided a large number of students through language examinations who would flounder indignantly a month later in a fifty page assignment in the same languages...
...question whether or not Stewart will greet the referee's whistle at the opening kick-off against Vermont Saturday. John Parkinson '29, and G. I. Shapiro '28 are at present Stewart's leading rivals. Despite the fact that he weighs only 170 pounds Parkinson is fast and has a knack of getting across the line of scrimmage which may win him a place among the University's first eleven gridiron representatives. Parkinson was captain of the Groton School team three years ago and then played regularly on his Freshman team after coming to college. Last year he was shifted...
Uldine Utley, pupil of Evangelist Aimée Semple McPherson and protégée of Calvary Bapist's Pastor John Roach Straton, had brought this abnormality into the congregation last January. Like prosperous Mrs. McPherson the stripling girl has the knack of exciting Pentecostal frenzies from her auditors, of throwing them into thaumaturgic fits. Warren Badenock Straton, 19, third son of the pastor (the sons are Rev. Hillyer Hawthorne, John Charles, Warren Badenock, George Douglas) had had his "soul saved" in this fashion. The Monday night Bible class had sought "saving" to such an extent that...
...says, is that we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently. In this country, a man or woman is paid what he can get--what his talents wil fctch in the market. If he has something attractive to sell, and also has the knack of putting himself forward, of advertising himself, he san get a great deal. If he has merely merit, but cannot make people want him, he gets very little. And the good scholar, the cogent thinker, is often a very poor advertiser...