Word: adept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope that the music would furnish sauce for the same salad. These last were disappointed. He has used the "Jurgen" legend merely as a pretext for the expression of certain emotions which might have been roused by the book or by some-thing else. The score is persuasive, adept, unoriginal. Critics-Mr. Taylor's colleagues, friends and rivals-were enthusiastic...
...fine, new, mature American baritone, capable, apparently, of bringing something interesting to any rôle the company wishes to entrust to his adept treatment...
...head whatever form of government is determined upon. Conflicting rumors assert that he favors: 1) A republic patterned after that now headed in Turkey by Mustapha Kernel Pasha. 2) The installation of himself as "Shahinshah,"* with the full original implications of the title. Since Reza Kahn is an extremely adept politician, U.S. observers opined that he would find the office of President well suited to his talents if not to his vanity...
...Only the adept passing of Jake Slagle, Princeton halfback, sent against Amherst after a scoreless first half, prevailed to beat off the thrusts of Drew, huge Amherst Negro. Score: Princeton 20, Amherst...
...Hamlet" in modern settings and modern costumes. In this production the melancholy Dane himself wore a well-tailored pair of knickerbockers. Ophelia went raving mad in the old regrettable fashion, even though quite up to date with a boyish bob and scandalously short skirt; and Laertes proved himself an adept at inhaling cigarettes. On the face of it, the play thus produced appeals as a clever burlesque; yet the producers seem to have been quite serious, being convinced that, after the first shock, Shakespeare would suffer nothing from the presence of modern costumes...