Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more like an American Indian, easily walks off with The Great American Broadcast. That is no feat. One tuneful ditty, I Take to You, some tasty hoofing by the Nicholas Brothers (colored), adequate vocalizing from blonde, lymphatic Alice Faye, are no match for the rustic mugging of an Oakie. Adept at using his nimble hands to take the action away from another cinemactor, he has a field day fiddling with the radio dials that clutter up The G.A.B...
...repel mashers. "No," said Violet, "I'd rather scream." "You must," said Officer Westgate, flipping her headlong across the room. "See how easy it is? I'll have no thug beating up my missus." Violet agreed to learn four holds, no more. They studied together, became adept. Interest in the Westgates' ability grew; week ago the Detroit police gave a demonstration before a crowd in the city's Masonic Temple. Finale was the Westgate act, entitled: "A Woman Defends Herself...
...patient Chinese are especially adept at circumvention. Recently word came of a new supply line which skirts the entire area of Japanese domination...
Fredric March with his solid, unruffled disposition makes a neat and finished sketch of the brooding Heyst; Sir Cedric Hardwicke is as sinister as a haunted house with his bland, cobra-like Mr. Jones; Jerome Cowan, mouthing claxon-like Cockney accents, draws an ugly but adept picture of a psychopathic killer; sparrow-voiced Betty Field turns the mousy Alma into a heroine with dimensions. But it is an actor's movie. There is never any real suspense in a story where suspense is the hallmark...
Looking on and loving it were: plump, pleasant Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York; bland, swart Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. They were glad to see priests adept at quick comebacks. Said Delegate Cicognani: "The apostles preached in this way. . . . It was in the streets that Our Lord met those who were in bad need...