Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Bardia's fall, Archie Wavell demonstrated a talent which is in the greatest British tradition-his knack for and knowledge of literature. He has written two good books, and is a constant reader of authors ranging from Browning to Wodehouse. When the Kipling Society of London quoted Kipling to congratulate him on taking Bardia, he cabled back immediately another reference from the same story. As his troops pushed on, other Wavell traits came out: his genius for cooperation, indicated by the way his men worked with R. A. F. and Navy; his complete confidence in subordinates like Major...
Third man is Wally McDonald, a Nebraska boy, who just started to play this year. He is good at long volleys and has a knack of keeping his position in the center of the court where he has less difficulty in returning his opponent's shots. In the same boat as McDonald is Ed Stevens who also began squash this year and who has made the most rapid improvement...
Sirs: The American sailor is without a doubt the best diplomat the United States could dispatch to a foreign land. With his knack for mixing with people, the gob has numerous advantages over the silk-hat representative of the State Department...
...Gilbert Miller & Vinton Freedley). The famous Hungarian playwright-refugee Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Swan, The Guardsman) apparently has not been too depressed by a world at war. Nowadays he spends much of his time in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel bar, and he has not lost his Continental knack of getting amusement out of the idea of cuckoldry. He is amused by it in Delicate Story. which is so delicate that it almost - but not quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about to be called back to the army...
...Grovas-Oro Films, bossed by Jesus Grovas, a veteran with 25 years' experience in the Paramount and M. G. M. distributing offices in Mexico City. Modest, unassuming Grovas is an expert on foreign distribution. His production specialist is a young lawyer, Juan Bustillo Oro, noted for his knack of sensing the current appetite of Latin-American cinemaudiences. Grovas-Oro's En Tiempos de Don Porfirio (In the Times of Diaz) broke all box-office records for Mexican films in its first three weeks...