Word: craftsmanly
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When Oscar Bruno Bach was 18 he made a finely wrought metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII's study. A native of Germany but a longtime resident of Manhattan, Oscar B. Bach is, according to the current Iron Age, "probably the foremost metal craftsman of this country." He has done a great deal of impressive metal decoration for public buildings, rich men's homes, ships, mausoleums, world's fairs. Last week bemonocled, pipe-sucking Mr. Bach discussed with newshawks a metallurgical process which he had developed (after years of research), and which not only delivers stainless...
Hailing William Morris as "our one great man," Granville Hicks '23, fellow in American History, extolled the Marxian socialism of this post, craftsman and political crusader in a meeting of the Modern Language Group last night...
Greater novelists might well admire Rebecca's craftsmanship. Again & again the reader is led with seeming casualness to the edge of a precipice of suspense. A competent craftsman, Author du Maurier manages to make her readers hold their breaths for 457 pages...
...effectively than Rodgers & Hart. When Rodgers' melodic line expresses gaiety, sadness, humor, Hart's lyrical line invariably complements and fulfills it. The lyrical slant may not be as sophisticated or clever as Cole Porter's. The melody may resort to chromatic tricks that such a perfect craftsman as Vincent Youmans would reject as unsound. But a Rodgers & Hart song usually has the power of a single musical expression, which not even such a pair of individual talents as P. G. Wodehouse & Jerome Kern could ever quite pull...
...matter who or what was to blame, the man who was last week taking the rap was the Hollywood craftsman. At unwieldy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has been at sixes & sevens since the death year-and-a-half ago of its one indisputable producer-genius, Irving G. Thalberg, more than 1,000 of the 3,000 studio employes had been dropped from the payroll. At RKO Radio the pruning halted at 250. In the United Artists group, only Producer Walter Wanger was working at top speed. Samuel Goldwyn was temporarily inactive, his corps of laborers laid off; Selznick International, geared...