Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks in a mirror and detects a resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding under his arm. The Nuisance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). No actor in Hollywood is more adept than Lee Tracy at characterizations of likable rogues. This time he is an ambulance chasing shyster, aided by a dipsomaniac doctor (Frank Morgan) and a collapsible assistant named Floppy (Charles Butterworth) whose duty it is to fall down in front of moving vehicles without getting hurt. Everything goes well...
...rest of the issue is taken up with articles of about the same calibre, all adept pricks at the American balloon, To many the Mercury's violent iconoclasm seems puerile; those whom it attacks quite naturally brand the publication with various derogatory appellations when they see the opportunity. With all the criticisms and animadversions which may justly or otherwise, be levelled at its insouciant head it remains a delight to a sizeable band of loyal readers. The first glow of boldness has died away, and the Mercury proceeds undimmed; the fact is that a thoroughly prejudiced and unafraid needing...
...which goes right to the heart of the American educational system, is whether the public school graduate, generally at a financial and social disadvantage, can fit into the private university that is composed in large part of prep school men. The answer is not that the private college should adept a more rigid policy of exclusion which would thus tend to make it over more undemocratic and snobbish, but that it should make an effect to preserve an intelligently worked out proportion between the two groups of entreats a preparation which, other considerations aside, would not put the high school...
...gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling brushes. His assistant (Allen Jenkins) functions as an impudent chauffeur who gathers from the councils of his confreres in garages the information that enables Chandra to become a highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends when one of the husbands pays him an indignant call. Presently Chandra is being led off for two years in the penitentiary, for killing his visitor in self-defense...
...Piggy Lambert the ablest coach in the Midwest; if not, the ablest is probably Dr. Walter E. ("Doc") Meanwell of Wisconsin, a stocky, irascible theorist who never played basketball. He now directs practice from a tall perambulator which assistant managers push around the floor. His teams, more than usually adept at blocking and feint dribbling, play smart defensive basketball with one guard always well behind the middle of the floor to break up quick, unexpected advances...