Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they do it is less a mystery than a knack. Typical of Stouffer's is its five-story restaurant on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue - dignified grey colonial brick front, tasteful Williamsburg interior decorations. Average lunch check is 60?, dinner 91?. Profit works out to 4.2? a meal. Food (all portions carefully measured) not only is good but looks good. The chain also goes in for comely waitresses - referred to only as "Stouffer girls." Stouffer's prefers them not too beautiful, with a touch of Bryn Mawr. Some of them have made as much as $75 a week...
...priceless attribute: a knack of locking up his and the world's worries in some secret mental compartment, and then enjoying himself to the top of his bent. This quality of survival, of physical toughness, of champagne ebullience, is one key to the big man. Another key is this: no one has ever heard him admit that he cannot walk...
Robert Alphonso Taft. Months ago (TIME, Dec. 18), the U. S. settled back to enjoy the Adventures of Robert in Bumbledom, decided that one of Mr. Taft's most attractive qualities was his knack of apparently muffing things. Industrious, hopeful, comfortable, the Dagwood Bumstead of American politics, Ohio's 50-year-old Senator was unprofessional, artless, refreshingly without a workable cure-all for every ill. By last week he had already rounded up more delegates than "Buster" Dewey will have at convention time, even if Mr. Dewey sweeps every primary in sight...
Herr Hitler, as he proved in his seizures of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, has a great knack of doing his grabbing where the western powers cannot get hold of him. The Axis still protects his southern frontier, Russia his eastern frontier. The Westwall guards his western frontier and the fall of Finland has made him safe from attack in the north. His vulnerable quarter is the southeast...
...French have a knack for wallowing in dirt and being fascinating withal. The muddier the pool the keener their desire to throw stones into it and watch the ripples. The darkness of the human mind and the dirt of existence are what they love to dwell on; and they do so to their heart's content (and the horror of the audience) in "The Human Beast," current film at the Fine Arts...