Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Researcher Sturtevant thinks that it is quite possible that the knack of tongue-rolling is transmitted by a single dominant gene. But he adds cautiously, "with the fairly frequent occurrence of additional complications...
...Parade; among them are "From Another World," "Nothing But You," and "Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon," Rodgers and Hart have done better than this (in fact, they haven't done their best since "On Your Toes" a few years ago), but at least they haven't lost the knack of turning out grist for the country's songmills...
Betty Joanne Benedict, 15, is one of the quietest little country girls ever born and brought up in the unquiet State of California. She has a pretty, sensitive face, cheeks like apples, red hair and a turned-up nose. She also has a knack for knocking out jingles ("All our family," she explains, "has been able to make rhymes for generations"), and a will...
Artist Freeman never stays seated long, keeps popping up to jot down more bits of Manhattery. His drawings and paintings have the same crowded vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under...
...also done a job on the equally popular subject of America's Chance of Peace (with Blair Bolles), Aikman has a pleasant dislike of what he calls "prescriptioneering" and a healthy sense of the vastness -historical, geographical and human-of his Latin American subject matter. He has a knack for bringing things home; e. g. (of the wonderful Spanish conquest): "It was as if the North American land mass had been explored from Cape Nome to Florida, the Rockies and the Appalachians prospected, the Mississippi and the Columbia river systems mapped, Klondike and California gold discovered, and Denver, Seattle...