Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is the second reason for the study of history. It is a constant exercise in escape from the strait-jacked of a provincial mind. An uneducated person sees the world from the point of view of his own narrow social and economic corner of it. He lacks the knack of forgetting the prejudices of his own trade, his own class, and his own particular country; he is incapable of seeing things whole. The historian who has undertaken to project his imagination into other times, to comprehend other customs and motives, is the more likely to achieve a similar vantage...
...Dramatic Club has chosen for its annual spring production on May 11, 12, 13, and 14, was first produced in 1906. It was written by Rida J. Young, a Radcliffe graduate who was then living and writing in New York. She was chiefly noted at the time for her knack of turning out clever, witty plays full of youthful sentiment and exuberance...
Graustark - Norma Talmadge should make more pictures. She is not only excellent herself; she seems to have a knack of picking stories. George W. McCutcheon's old romance of the fancied Balkan principality comes gorgeously to life in pictures. It is well played, it is exciting. It is, therefore, an unusual film, not to be missed...
...What knack he has of local flavor and of briny personality the cinema seems to have missed. The story is of an old salt possessed of religious zeal and physical fear. A handsome life guard wins his lovely daughter...
WATLING'S - Horace Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well...