Word: fluent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard a phonograph record of Violist Primrose playing a Paganini caprice. Never had they heard or heard tell of such fast & fluent viola playing, at first thought some super-brilliant violinist like Jascha Heifetz had made the record under an assumed name. They telegraphed Primrose, then on tour with the London String Quartet, and offered him the job of Toscanini's chief viola player. He accepted...
...Flagstaff, Ariz, county jail. In 1904 he interrupted his law studies at University of Michigan long enough to marry the young Irish widow who managed Flagstaff's weather bureau. In 1912 he was elected to the U. S. Senate, has been there ever since, famous, admired for his fluent sesquipedalian style-the elegant, eloquent Henry Fountain Ashurst. Into wifely anonymity faded the little Irish woman, beloved by the few who knew her kindness...
After 17 years in Paris, Walter Merguson speaks fluent French, lives with his mother in a Montmartre house which he owns. Thin, tall, well-mannered, he has seen most of Europe, before the war had visited both the Westwall and the Maginot Line. Last month Newsman Merguson scored a beat on the entire press of the U. S. with a story of the mobilization of French colonial troops. His cable to the Courier revealed that France was raising a black army of 2,000,000 soldiers, 500,000 laborers. Including the Senegalese fighters who were famed for valor...
Herr Matejko, an official Austrian staff artist in World War I, perfected his technique in the trenches and has again been given fullest scope for his talent by the German High Command. Possessor of a fluent romantic style, Theo Matejko works usually in charcoal. Aged 45, famed in Berlin as the driver of a white Mercédès racing car, he has flown this year with Nazi sea raiders but does not claim to have seen the alleged bombing of Ark Royal. This may account for considerable artistic license...
BETRAYAL IN CENTRAL EUROPE-G. E. R. Gedye-Harper ($3.50). Fluent, heated, colorful account of Austria from 1925 through Anschluss, with a bitter windup on Czecho-Slovakia, by the much-expelled foreign correspondent of the New York Times...