Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret of Bend Sinister's effect is that it places side by side, heightened by the selectivity of an adept and angry writer, the most moronic abominations of totalitarianism and the finest lights of the secular European mind. The hoaxed and flattered humanity of the mass man is contrasted with the honest and deeply suffering humanity of the individual; but all this is done so lightly that it seems a mocking and superior amusement...
Andy, by the Government's evidence, seemed to be adept at turning a penny occasionally out of his favors to friends. The Government produced records of two $1,000 checks May had pocketed, a $2,500 deposit in his account by Murray Garsson, an old $5,000 note Murray had obligingly paid off at the bank. But the biggest payoff was an enterprise known as the Cumberland Lumber Co., conveniently located in Andy's home town of Prestonsburg, Ky. The owners were Murray and Henry Garsson; their agent was Andy...
...pressure steam turbines to keep his nose out of the engine room. The men who ran the show down there were his assistants-notably Ed Greenewater, the first assistant, a sloppy, red-faced kid with an intuitive, possessive feel for engines, and Paul Jessup, the second, only half as adept mechanically but twice as inquisitive...
Wives and daughters of Boston's more adept coupon clippers and a smattering of almost shamefaced Harvardmen gathered amidst the lime-colored elegance of the Copley Plaza Oval Room early this week to partake of creamed chicken and the spinach that if fashion. In an effort to obtain a masculine insight on feminine fashions the management successively selected, wined, dined, and embarrassed an all-male jury...
Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, an able administrator and an adept public speaker, could probably be persuaded; but he was almost too rich. Also wealthy and able was Lewis Douglas, Ambassador to Britain. There were only a few prospects counted out for sure by Democratic headquarters. Florida's left-wing Senator Claude Pepper was one such. Just about everybody believed the political disclaimer of Secretary of State George Marshall (who would become President if Harry Truman died in office). Ike Eisenhower, who had tried hard to squash presidential rumors, would be even less likely to consider...