Word: metier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tactics of certain competitors and forsaw trouble ahead. Mr. Wolff began to walk, not run, toward the nearest exit, and he has now reached what he considers to be safe ground. Mr. Wolff is not a tutor at all, he says, at least not in the commercial sense. His metier is "guidance and supervision...
Ciano Career. Old hands at Statecraft consider that the young Count has had their metier's most meteoric career. His vigorous father Count Costanzo Ciano, Admiral and longtime Minister of Communications, was one of Italy's most conspicuous naval heroes of the War. In Fascism's early days Father Ciano was the first Italian of national prominence to join struggling Editor Benito Mussolini and become a Fascist. Son Galeazzo was a Fascist zealot before he was out of his teens. After a law degree at the University of Rome, he became theatre and book reviewer on Nuovo...
Such a criticism must not be regarded lightly. The government department of America's oldest and most respected university has a clear responsibility to society, particularly at the present time. Specifically, less emphasis should be placed in the future on political theory as such, and more on the metier whereby the theory is put into practice: far more adequate means should be provided for the study of public administration. To be sure, this field is a comparative newcomer in university courses, but its newness does not excuse Harvard's falling behind the times in a realm of ever-growing significance...
...neuroses, Powys sometimes turned them to account. At school he got out of a disagreeable fix by successfully pretending to be mad. His vociferous strangeness attracted a few disciples at Cambridge. When he went to the U. S. in 1905 and began to lecture, he found his metier: "Yes, the platform has been everything to me. It has been the bed of my erotic joys. It has been the battlefield of my fiercest struggles. It has been the gibbet of my execution. It has been the post of my scourging. It has been my throne. It has been my close...
...that he has been so successful that he has never had much chance to write anything but dog stories. The fact is that he has found his metier and doesn't choose to turn again to aesthetic writing. Only last week he refused Burton Rascoe's suggestion that he reprint in book form his famous Raegan Stories that appeared in 1913 or thereabouts in the Mencken-Nathan Smart Set. He doesn't want those sophisticated tales cropping up now. If they were reprinted, his name would carry them into thousands of American homes, where it is a parental maxim that...