Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Williams required all his urbanity and parliamentary skill to keep the convention's business meetings from riot. Many Negro Baptists have become discontented with his long tenure of the presidency. This year they had as a sword over his head a scandal...
...earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company is George Britton Durell who, in the garden of his two-acre home in Cleveland and on his 2,000-acre farm outside of the city, tries out new tools with a skill learned on his father's truck farm. Speaking of the merger, he said: "While no two of the companies manufacture the same product, nearly all the tools made by them are composed of steel heads and wooden handles, and the processes of manufacture are similar...
...when she goes to another woman's home, where her husband has been gambling away his substance, and brings his affec- tion and property home again. Full of theatrical cliches, Lawful Larceny is enlivened by the verbal improvisations and expansive mannerisms of Actor Lowell Sherman and by the skill of Director Lowell Sherman in giving Actor Sherman due opportunities. In spite of its familiarity, it moves fast enough to be fair entertainment. Best shot: Bebe Daniels going to work as secretary to the woman who has broken up her home...
...drinkers, says Seldes, had forgotten how to drink long before it became illegal to remember. Now "professional" drinkers have become as fanatical as Drys. "Until we learn how to drink at home with considerably more technical skill and social grace than we now possess, we will need the saloon as much as ever." Says Seldes: 100,000 speakeasies flourish in the U. S., not to satisfy the national taste for liquor but "our pride and a childish illusion of wickedness, a 'tawdry romanticism." No friend to Prohibition, Moderate Drinker Seldes believes in freedom to drink when you want...
...Congress: he is a consistent, fiery debater. This and his skill at floor strategy make him the spokesman of the four Democratic leaders, I particularly on matters of Constitutional law. His opinion carries great weight in the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is also a respected member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and of the Committees of Interoceanic Canals, Irrigation & Reclamation, Mines & Mining, Public Lands & Surveys...