Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEODORE Francis Powys is a highly skilled master of the craft of writing English prose. He inspires even a reviewer to aspire to the gentle knack of turning words askew so that their edges sparkle. In the tradition of the English men-of-letters who find a delicate amusement in the sophisticated subletry of perverse ideas, the author of these fables plays a part, but not without just rooting himself securely in the healthy soil of life. Thus he effects a nice refinement of words and ideas with all the vigor of the primitive. This makes him very chic indeed...
Those who are familiar with teaching conditions in the secondary schools of this country are impressed with the oft-noted inability of new teachers to deal with actual teaching problems as presented by classroom experience? The art of successful teaching requires the knack of dealing with the human element just as much as it necessitates mental capability. In teaching, as in everything else, experience brings ultimate perfection, and often the early years of a teacher's career may be mainly spent in setting accustomed to handling classes...
Born to Be's illustrator, young Mexican Miguel de Covarrubias, chiefly known in the U. S. for his drawings in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, provides splendiferous and glaring drawings, appropriate to the vibrant story, exhibiting his amazing knack for racial characteristics...
Vandenberg has a knack for putting losers out on top. When he was a reporter for the Grand Rapids Herald, Collier's Weekly hired him as editorial writer at $75 a week, a princely income at the turn of the century. But he quit Collier's and came back to The Herald at $18 a week on a hunch. Soon after that The Herald, in new hands, was shy an editor. Vandenberg hung up his hat in the editor's office, brushed his cigar ashes in the editor's tray and announced himself as the new boss. The owner...
...thus reflecting the wide popularity Mrs. Sidgwick holds in England. Closely related to the Bensons (A. C. and E. F.), she belongs to a literary tradition of quiet humor, leisurely manner (461 close-packed pages to the present volume, the average modern novel boasting some leaded 300). Her particular knack is to vivify a biggish assortment of characters in their intricate interchange of much talk and suppressed British emotion...