Word: metier
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...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...
...toothless timberwolf" is a simile he tosses off while talking about love. Adapted from a novel by Brooklyn Colyumist Rian James, Love is a Racket is brightly acted, particularly by Lee Tracy as a reporter who is always somewhat agitated. It contains a few genuine shots of its metier, including one of Author James's favorite chophouse...
...abode in echelon formation. ... In the arts the matter is notorious. There are young geniuses and child prodigies, who are admired like the aardvark and the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, but all the solid and enduring work is done by men who have lived long enough to have mastered their metier and life itself...
...Paris, however, the Chambruns were furious. They are blood descendants of the great La Fayette, direct offspring of his daughter Virginie (he named his youngest son after an old comrade in arms "Georges Washington Metier de La Fayette"). On the contrary, not a single drop of ancestor La Fayette's blood flows in the veins of the Dampierres. They are collateral descendants of the marquis through one of his four sisters-in-law. That "such descendants" should be sent over on the Lafayette, the Chambruns thought outrageous! Happily U. S. citizens know little, care less about exquisite ripples of this...
Impersonator Carroll, ablest in his metier, has progressed from a sandwiched spot in The Grand Street Follies (brainy, cheaply-produced annual revue) to a local institution...