Word: adept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MOTHER OF THE BRIDE-Alice Grant Rosman-Putnam ($2). An adept at pleasant solution of English middle-class family problems, Author Rosman deftly pilots three sets of lovers to a happy landing in a fluffy tale which should meet the clamor for hot-weather entertainment...
HARPOONER - Robert Ferguson - University of Pennsylvania Press ($2.50). Journal of an unassuming Scottish-U. S. seaman, who calmly recorded his day-today experiences on a four-year whaling expedition in the 1880's. An adept at understatement, Diarist Ferguson conveys the impression that despite the extreme hazards of his profession, the harpooner's lot was not an unhappy...
...film since she won an Academy award for acting in Dangerous (TIME, March 16)- a fact of which Warner Brothers made much use in their advertising. Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop, The Golden Arrow proves nothing more than that she is adept at nonchalance. Good shot: her proposal of marriage to George Brent while they hang upside down in a Ferris wheel...
Great novelists live with their characters; lesser ones pay calls. Not a great novelist but a good one, Sylvia Thompson is an adept at taking her leave, never embarrasses her characters or her readers by staying with them too long at a stretch. Third Act in Venice, her latest (and ninth) novel, is a brilliant exhibition of her episodic power, her knowledge of how to be absolutely tactful though relatively true...
...EARLIEST DREAMS-Nancy Hale- Scribner ($2.50). Fifteen short stories in minor key by a writer especially adept in dealing with feminine emotions. Author Hale writes with keen perception; at times, as in the title story, reaches a high poetic plane...