Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love Clarence Darrow for his flair for the underdog. . . . Nobody in the world was ever more adept in convincing twelve men that another man, who had bombed somebody, or poisoned somebody, or taken a Kanaka for a ride in the most approved gangster style, or, with some psychopathic urge, taken a little boy out into the Michigan dunes and beaten the life out of him, hadn't either bombed, or poisoned, or ridden or beaten anybody...
...Persia must learn to do without foreigners!" is a favorite dictum of Shah Riza, himself a masterly adept at playing foreigners off against each other. Issuing banknotes used to be the profitable prerogative of the Imperial Bank of Persia, a prerogative well paid for by the bank's British backers. When they had been well squeezed, the Government founded the National Bank, with Germans in charge, and let them issue banknotes for a consideration. Belgians were next in favor and only this spring did the King of Kings give his Belgian Treasurer-General (in charge of customs) notice...
Where Mr. Stoddard's conflicting polices of trading with the belligerents and keeping perfect "isolation" will lead us is not hard to say. Wall Street is adept at this game but knows where it leads. The only true method--and neutrality is a manifest possibility--is to keep our goods off the seas, or protected by a squadron of our own destroyers, and to give up our frenzied isolation and look for a strong ally before it is too late...
...life. She does exceedingly well, particularly in the more pathetic stories of Franlcin Hanssemann, the school mistress, and Madame Lenosova, the actress attempting to salvage something of value and fame out of her long existing career so that she may impress an American movie-magnate. The author is especially adept in moving minor characters, such as the movie-magnate, Licbmann; through the several stories, giving them varied roles as they appear with the leading figures...
...subjects Hemingway chooses are seldom light or sweet; it is not surprising that only four of these stories were published in magazines. An adept at creating sinister atmospheres, Author Hemingway has never whistled up an eerier spirit than in "After the Storm," a story of a Florida beach comber who discovers the submerged wreck of a liner. Some of the other tales: A terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess...