Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting the answers, from the Near East's sheiks and emirs, its shahs and kings and plain people, Bullitt will have the advantage of his old newspaper training (Philadelphia Public Ledger), his knack for talking easily to new acquaintances, his enthusiasm for discovery...
MABEL S. SHAW, Publisher, Dixon Evening Telegraph WM. V. SLOTHOWER, Mayor of the City of Dixon WALTER C. KNACK, President, Dixon Chamber of Commerce Dixon...
...Horse, Best Foot Forward gives every sign of being durable. Handsomely set up by Jo Mielziner, it is bolstered by some fast dance routines tapped together by Gene Kelly, lately the hoofing heel of Pal Joey. The whole show demonstrates once again George Abbott's peculiar knack of making innocence lively...
...Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Bangkok is keen, spare, mild-mannered Willys Ruggles Peck. His joints jut out like scaffolding joists. His Chinese-yellow skin is stretched tight over a shrunken skull. Peck is one of the most tactful, tightlipped, affable men in the State Department, with an Oriental knack for getting what he wants while he lets you think you are walking all over him. If anybody-can hold Thailand safe for democracy, Peck...
...laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno). To Reno, their first born, Paw & Maw proudly referred as their "monstous curosity." He was 20 years old, six feet two inches tall, weighed less than 50 pounds, and drooled into a sparse beard...